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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464770703321

Autore

Nowicki Krzysztof

Titolo

Final Neolithic Crete and the southeast Aegean / / by Krzysztof Nowicki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : DeGruyter, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61451-982-X

1-61451-037-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.)

Disciplina

939/.1801

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Crete

Bronze age - Aegean Sea Region

Civilization, Aegean

Electronic books.

Crete (Greece) Antiquities

Aegean Sea Region Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Geography of the south Aegean -- The Neolithic beginning -- The final Neolithic in Crete : terminology and chronology -- The final Neolithic in Crete : the sites -- The final Neolithic in Crete : material culture -- The final Neolithic/late Chalcolithic in the southeast Aegean -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book presents an archaeological study of Crete in transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 3000 BC) within the broader South Aegean context. The study, based on the author's own fieldwork, contains a gazetteer of over 170 sites. The material from these sites will prompt archaeologists in Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East to reconsider their understanding of the foundation of Bronze Age civilization in the Aegean"--