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The emergence of civilisation : the Cyclades and the Aegean in the third millennium BC /

Introduction. Civilisation ; The explanation of culture change ; The multiplier effect ; The Minoan-Mycenean civilisation and its origins -- Culture sequence. The neolithic background ; Crete in the third millennium BC ; The third millennium BC in the Eastern Aegean ; The early Cycladic culture sequ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Renfrew, Colin, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Introduction. Civilisation ; The explanation of culture change ; The multiplier effect ; The Minoan-Mycenean civilisation and its origins -- Culture sequence. The neolithic background ; Crete in the third millennium BC ; The third millennium BC in the Eastern Aegean ; The early Cycladic culture sequence ; The Grotta-Pelos culture ; The Keros-Syros culture ; The Phylakopi I culture ; Aegean interrelations and chronology in the third millennium BC -- Culture process. Patterns of settlement and population in the prehistoric Aegean ; Natural environment and the subsistence subsystem ; The development of Aegean metallurgy ; Craft specialisation and the transformation of the physical environment ; Social systems ; Symbolic and projective systems ; Trade, communication and innovation ; The multiplier effect in action -- Appendix. Gazetteer of neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in the Cycladic Islands ; Local groups with the Grotta-Pelos and Keros-Syros cultures of the Cyclades ; Data for the matrix analysis of the early Cycladic cemeteries.
Notas:Reprint of 1972 edition.
Includes a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (liv, 634 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-588) and index.
ISBN:9781785707759
1785707752
9781785707735
1785707736