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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806182303321

Autore

Bailey Douglass W (Douglass Whitfield), <1963->

Titolo

Balkan prehistory : exclusion, incorporation and identity / / Douglass W. Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-60707-5

1-134-60708-3

1-280-31769-8

0-203-46196-7

9786610317691

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

939/.8

Soggetti

Antiquities, Prehistoric - Balkan Peninsula

Prehistoric peoples - Balkan Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula 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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Balkan prehistory (6500  2500 BC): fundamental changes in human behaviour; Fundamental changes in living; Explanation; The organization and structure of the book; Setting the scene: the Balkans before 6500 BC; Spatial organization in the middle and upper Palaeolithic; Expressions of identity in the Balkan late Pleistocene; Where is the Mesolithic?; Chapter conclusions; Summary; Building social environments (6500  5500 BC); Northern Greece; West- and south-central Bulgaria

The Western Balkans and the lower DanubeThe Danube Gorges; North-west Anatolia and Turkish Thrace; Chapter conclusions; Summary; New dimensions of material culture: pottery containers and other forms of expression (6500  5500 BC); Other forms of expressive material culture; Non-representational, visually expressive material culture; Chapter conclusions and summary; Continuity or change? Burials, lithics, plants and animals (6500  5500 BC); Flaked ston

Sommario/riassunto

Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed in an archaeology of the



Balkans and is required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.