The First Farming Communities in Europe
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/10/2001
Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, and their settlements provide the link between the first agricultural communities in the Near East and the subsequent spread of the new technologies to the Balkans and on to Western Europe. Catherine Perles argues that the stimulus for the spread of agriculture to Europe was a colonisation movement involving small groups of maritime peoples. Drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological sources, including often neglected 'small finds', and introducing daring new perspectives on funerary rituals and the distribution of figurines, she constructs a complex and subtle picture of early Neolithic societies, overturning the traditional view that these societies were simple and self-sufficient.
- ISBN:
- 9780521000277
- 9780521000277
- Category:
- Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 04-10-2001
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 372
- Dimensions (mm):
- 244x170x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.59kg
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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