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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452267703321

Autore

Sampson Adamantios

Titolo

Cave of the Cyclops [[electronic resource] ] : Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece, Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : INSTAP Academic Press, 2011

ISBN

1-62303-063-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Collana

Prehistory Monographs ; ; v.31

Disciplina

939.1

939.11

Soggetti

Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Greece -- Cyclops, Cave of the

Cyclops, Cave of the (Greece)

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Gioúra Island

Gioúra Island (Greece) -- Antiquities

Mesolithic period -- Greece -- Cyclops, Cave of the

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Plates""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Cave Setting and Stratigraphy, Adamantios Sampson""; ""2. Pottery Analysis of the Neolithic Period, Adamantios Sampson""; ""3.Middle Neolithic Weavers Paint: Red Painted Patterns as Markers of the Local Group's Identity, Stella Katsarou-Tzeveleki""; ""4. Late Neolithic Painted and Burnished Decorated Wares, Fanis Mavridis""; ""5. Pottery Analysis of the Bronze Age and Historical Periods, Adamantios Sampson""; ""6. Lamps of the Roman Period, Georgios B. Koutsouflakis""

""7. Ground Stone Tools, Stone Objects, and Miscellaneous Small Finds, Adamantios Sampson . . . . 161A Neolithic Figurine from the Cave of the Cyclops, Laia Orphanidis""""8. Chipped Stone Artifacts, Malgorzata Kaczanowska and Janusz K. KozÅ?owski""; ""9. Survey in the Deserted Islands of the Northern Sporades, Adamantios Sampson""; ""10. History of Animal Husbandry and Agriculture on Youra and the Neighboring



Islandsof the Northern Sporades, Adamantios Sampson""; ""11. A Mesolithic Cranial Vault and Other Human Remains, Nickos A. Poulianos""; ""12. Conclusions, Adamantios Sampson""

""Bibliography""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book completes the two-part series that serves as the final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the Northern Sporades of Greece, a site that was occasionally occupied from the Mesolithic through Roman period. The second volume contains the results of detailed studies on the archaeological material, organic remains, and archeometric analyses that complete the image of this significant archaeological site. These studies help to further distinguish the main characteristics of the Mesolithic culture in the Aegean basin, including: the intense exploit