Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1229 pages)
ISBN:
9781785707216
Content:
Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of sites -- Introduction -- PART I. INTRODUCTORY AND OVERARCHING STUDIES -- 1. Inventing the Final Neolithic -- 2. Transformation and changes at the end of the Neolithic -- 3. Village nucleation and centralisation in the Later Neolithic of South-Eastern Europe: A long-term, comparative approach -- 4. Greece in the 5th and 4th millennia B.C.: Researching the âmissingâ 4th millennium -- 5. The shadowy âproto-Early Bronze Ageâ in the Aegean -- 6. Casting doubts on metallurgy and the transition to social complexity: The evidence from the Aegean -- PART II. THE BALKANS -- 7. Settlement pattern changes during the Central Balkans Copper Age -- 8. Modelling the black box: Bulgaria in the 4th millennium BC -- 9. Possible approaches to tracing the fate of the population of the Varna, Kodjadermen-GumelniÅ£a-Karanovo VI and Krivodol-SÄlcuÅ£a cultures -- 10. Kozareva Mogila: A settlement and necropolis in the West Black Sea region -- 11. The Chalcolithic settlement at Varhari: A production and trade centre in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains -- 12. The latest Late Chalcolithic settlement at Tell Yunatsite: Plan and architectural remains -- 13. Late Chalcolithic cult tables from Tell Yunatsite, Bulgaria -- 14. Rethinking the absolute chronology of the South-Eastern Balkans in the latter half of the 5th and in the 4th millennium BC -- 15. Graphite and carbon: Relative and absolute chronology between the Aegean and the Black Sea in the 5th millennium BC -- 16. Lithic technology in the region between the Lower Danube and Marmara in the 6th and 5th millennia BC -- 17. Synchronisation of the Albanian and North Aegean Late Neolithic periods: New data from the lakeside dwelling of Kallamas (Albania)
Content:
PART III. NORTH GREECE AND THESSALY -- 18. The chronological and social dimensions of the Late Neolithic IâII and the Late NeolithicâEarly Bronze Age transitions in a long-lived settlement in Northern Greece (Dikili Tash, Kavala district) -- 19. Transformations of space in the Late Neolithic settlements of Northern Greece: Review of the evidence from Makriyalos and Thermi -- 20. Visviki Magoula, Thessaly: Reconsidering cultural change from the Arapi to the Dimini phase -- 21. The role of the Theopetra cave in Thessaly, Greece, at the end of the Neolithic: Habitual or symbolic use? -- 22. Beyond transition: Tracing eventfulness behind the Middle NeolithicâLate Neolithic ceramic divide -- 23. The beast with many heads: Assembling bodies and changing history in the 5th millennium BC -- PART IV. WEST, CENTRAL AND SOUTH GREECE -- 24. Demographic transitions from the Earlier Neolithic stages until the first Early Bronze Age settlements in the plains and hill-country of Boeotia, Greece -- 25. Late Neolithic traditions: Evidence from Sarakenos Cave -- 26. Lionâs Cave, Hymettus Mountain, Attica: Figurines, structures and material culture associations -- 27. The Later Neolithic use of the cave Oinoe IV, at Marathon (Attica, Greece): Preliminary report -- 28. The end of the Neolithic in East Attica: New data from Kontra Gliate (Kiapha Thiti) and Thorikos Mine -- 29. The Kastria/Pangali group and the beginning of the Chalcolithic in Southern Greece -- 30. Tracing social changes in the Late Neolithic/Final Neolithic transition at Drakaina Cave, Kephalonia, Western Greece -- 31. Caves and the landscape of Late Neolithic to Early Helladic I Greece: Comparing excavation and survey data from the Peloponnese -- 32. New evidence for the beginning of habitation at Aigeira, Achaia (Greece)
Content:
33. Stones, pots ⦠and now ornaments: Revisiting the MiddleâLate Neolithic and the LateâFinal Neolithic transitions at Franchthi -- 34. The Early Helladic I cemetery at Kalyvia in Ancient Elis -- 35. Long-distance exchange of obsidian: Diachronic changes at the cave site of Alepotrypa, Greece -- PART V. AEGEAN ISLANDS, CRETE AND CYPRUS -- 36. Ayios Ioannis, Thasos: The economy of a small coastal site dated to the second half of the 4th millennium BC -- 37. The Neolithic to Chalcolithic transition on the island of GökÃeada (Imbros) -- 38. Land management in the Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Aegean? Some tantalising indications from Southern Euboea -- 39. The Later Neolithic cultures of the Aegean archipelago with special reference to the Cyclades: Connecting strategies of space use -- 40. Strofilas, Andros: New perspectives on the Neolithic Aegean -- 41. The Late Neolithic and Final Neolithic phases on Kos and the Alasarna settlement pattern -- 42. Settlement patterns and social organisation in Crete during the Final Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age (ca. 3700â3000 BC) -- 43. The introduction of pressure blade technologies into Crete in the late 4th millennium BC: Where, how, and to what end? -- 44. The earliest phase of the Final Neolithic at Phaistos in a wider Cretan context: New perspectives -- 45. The Final NeolithicâEarly Minoan I transition in South-Central Crete: New data from Phaistos -- 46. Gavdos, or living on the southernmost Aegean island in the Neolithic cultural horizon -- 47. The entry of Cyprus into the circum-Aegean world and the growth of regionalism on the island -- 48. Rethinking the âCypriot paradoxâ: Socio-economic change in Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus -- PART VI. WEST ANATOLIA -- 49. The Middle Chalcolithic period in the Troad: A new look from Gülpınar
Content:
50. On marble, conical rhyta: New evidence from YeÅiltepe in the West Anatolian hinterland -- 51. The Chalcolithic period at YeÅilova Höyük -- 52. What follows the Late Neolithic occupation in Central-Western Anatolia? A view from Ulucak -- 53. The Chalcolithic of Coastal Western Anatolia: A view from Liman Tepe, Ä°zmir -- 54. Interaction as a stimulus? ÃukuriÃi Höyük and the transition from the Late Chalcolithic period to the Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia -- 55. Prehistoric culture at Ãine-Tepecik and its contribution to the archaeology of the region -- 56. Cave habitations in Chalcolithic Lycia: The case of TavabaÅı near Tlos -- 57. At the crossroads: Changing Chalcolithic settlement patterns in Phrygia -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785707209
Additional Edition:
Print version Dietz, Søren Communities in Transition : The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited,c2017 ISBN 9781785707209
Language:
English
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