| Author: |
|
A. Colin Renfrew
|
| Title: |
 |
The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC |
| Moochable copies: |
|
No copies available |
| Amazon suggests: |
|
| Topics: |
|
| Published in: |
|
English |
| Binding: |
|
Paperback |
| Pages: |
|
650 |
| Date: |
|
2011-01-11 |
| ISBN: |
|
0977409465 |
| Publisher: |
|
Oxbow Books |
| Weight: |
|
3.05 pounds |
| Size: |
|
6.89 x 1.69 x 9.65 inches |
| Edition: |
|
2 |
| Wishlists: |
|
|
| Description: |
|
Product Description
Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly community. Contents: Foreword by John Cherry; Introduction to the 2009 Edition; Civilisation; The Explanation of Culture Change; The Multiplier Effect; the Minoan-Mycenean Civilisation and its Origins. Part I - Culture Sequence: The Neolithic Background; Crete in the Third Millennium BC; Mainland Greece in the Third Millennium BC; The Eastern Aegean in the Third Millennium BC; 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. Part II - 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. Appendices.
|
| URL: |
|
http://bookmooch.com/0977409465 |
|
|
