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A. Colin Renfrew
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The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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650 |
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2011-01-11 |
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0977409473 |
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Oxbow Books |
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3.4 pounds |
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6.89 x 1.77 x 9.96 inches |
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2 |
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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.
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http://bookmooch.com/0977409473 |
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