Bintliff The Complete Archaeology of Greece

From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D.
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25520-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, E-Book

The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incrediblerichness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in ourunderstanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic eraof 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a singlevolume, the field's traditional focus on art and architecture hasbeen combined with a rigorous overview of the latest archaeologicalevidence forming a truly comprehensive work on Greek civilization.

*Extensive noteson the text are freely available online at WileyOnline Library, and include additional details andreferences for both the serious researcher and amateur

* A unique single-volume exploration of the extraordinarydevelopment of human society in Greece from the earliest humantraces up till the early 20th century AD

* Provides 22 chapters and an introduction chronologicallysurveying the phases of Greek culture, with over 200illustrations

* Features over 200 images of art, architecture, and ancienttexts, and integrates new archaeological discoveries for a moredetailed picture of the Greece past, its landscape, and itspeople

* Explains how scientific advances in archaeology have provided abroader perspective on Greek prehistory and history

Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding AcademicTitle

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bintliff, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables ix
List of Color Plates xxii
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1
Part I The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory 9
1 The Dynamic Land 11
2 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic inGreece 28
3 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece 46
4 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age 83
5 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The MinoanCivilization 123
6 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and theMainland 155
7 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the WiderAegean: The Mycenaean Civilization 181
Part II The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and RomanGreece in its Longer-term Context 207
8 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a "Dark Age"209
9 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, SettlementPatterns, and Everyday Life 234
10 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Societyin Archaic Greece 252
11 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, SettlementPatterns, and Everyday Life 265
12 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Societyin Classical Greece 285
13 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenistic to Early RomanImperial Times: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life310
14 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Societyin Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece 337
15 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times toLate Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life351
16 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Societyin Middle to Late Roman Greece 369
Part III The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greecein its Historical Context 379
17 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece: Demography, SettlementPatterns, and Everyday Life 381
18 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Societyin the Byzantine Aegean 402
19 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece416
20 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population,Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments 436
21 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society inOttoman and Venetian Greece 459
22 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece 478
Index 498

Über Autor(innen)

John Bintliff studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge where he received his PhD in the landscape archaeology of prehistoric Greece. He has taught at Bradford and Durham Universities and is currently at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been co-director of the Boeotia Project in Central Greece since 1978. His interests include the long-term archaeology of Greece and the Mediterranean, landscape archaeology and regional field survey, and archaeological theory. He has published 18 books, including Mycenaean Geography (1977), Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments (1982), European Social Evolution (1984), The Annales School and Archaeology (1991), Europe Between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1995), Structure and Contingency (1999), The Future of Archaeological Field Survey in Europe (2000), A Companion to Archaeology (2004), Testing the Hinterland (2007), Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece (2009).