The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC

by Colin Renfrew, John Cherry

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785707735
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	06/30/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	650
File size:	58 MB
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About the Author

Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) was formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Jesus College Cambridge from 1986 to 1997. He has excavated at a number of sites in prehistoric Greece and in the Orkney Islands, and is the author of many publications, including Prehistory: the making of the human mind (2008). He is Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and was the recipient of the Balzan Prize in 2004.

Table of 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 Sysems
Trade, Communication and Innovation
The Multiplier Effect in Action
Appendices.