The Complete Archaeology of Greece [[electronic resource] ] : From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D

• Autore: Bintliff John
• Pubblicazione: Somerset, : Wiley, 2012; Somerset : , : Wiley, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (789 p.)
• Disciplina: 949.5
• Soggetto topico: Art, Ancient; Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece; Architecture, Ancient
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Antiquities; Greece Civilization
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory -- 1 The Dynamic Land -- Introduction -- Geological and Geomorphological History -- Climate -- Vegetation -- Soils -- Erosion -- Ethnoarchaeology -- 2 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic in Greece -- The Wider Framework -- The Hunter-Gatherers of Greece -- The Lifeworld of Hunter-Gatherers in Greece -- An Annaliste Integration of Processes at Different Timescales -- A Personal View -- 3 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece -- Introduction -- Origins of the Greek Neolithic -- Settlement Patterns -- The Agropastoral Economy -- Craft Production, Exchange, and Neolithic Material Culture -- Social Relations -- Neolithic Symbolic Behavior and Material Culture -- General Considerations for Neolithic Greece -- An Annaliste Perspective on the Integration of Different Timescales -- A Personal View -- 4 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age -- Introduction -- The Early Bronze Age Mainland: The Early Helladic Culture -- Early Minoan Crete -- Early Cycladic Culture -- The Early Bronze Age in Northern Greece -- The Early Bronze Age: An Annaliste Perspective -- The Early Bronze Age: A Personal View -- 5 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The Minoan Civilization -- Introduction -- Aegean integration into an Eastern Mediterranean world system? -- Landscape Archaeology and Population, and the Rural Economy -- Chronological context and periodization -- Palace Design -- Central Courts and the evolution of the "Palatial Complexes" -- Who lived in the Minoan Palaces? -- Relations Between "Palatial Centers": Toward a More Historical and Regional Perspective -- The Minoans Abroad -- The End of the New Palaces -- Writing and Administration. ; Pottery Styles -- Other Products -- Burial Archaeology -- Minoan Religion: Plazas, Temples, Peak Sanctuaries, and Sacred Caves -- Strengths and Weaknesses of the New Model for Minoan "Court-Complex" Society -- Aspects of Symbolic Culture -- The Minoan Civilization: An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- 6 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and the Mainland -- The Cycladic Middle to Late Bronze Age -- The Middle Helladic and Early Late Helladic Periods on the Mainland -- An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- 7 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the Wider Aegean: The Mycenaean Civilization -- Historical Development: The Mature Civilization and Its Collapse -- The End of Mycenaean Civilization -- The Mycenaean Settlement System -- Towns and Palaces -- Construction Works of Monumental Scale -- Religion -- Pots and Trade -- Greece and the Aegean Beyond the Palaces -- Mycenaean Art -- The Mycenaean Era: An Annales Perspective -- The Mycenaeans: A Personal View -- Part II: The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Greece in its Longer-term Context -- 8 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a "Dark Age" -- Introduction -- Light Reappears in the "Dark Age" -- Landscape and Settlement from Early Iron Age to Archaic Times -- Developments in Northern Greece -- Settlement and House Plans -- Technology and Trade -- Social Archaeology -- The Origins of the Greek Temple -- Bronze Tripods -- An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- 9 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life -- Introduction -- Political Developments -- The Archaic City -- Extramural and Panhellenic Sanctuaries -- Expanding Horizons -- Trade and Colonization -- Coinage -- The Uses of Literacy -- 10 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Society in Archaic Greece. ; The Revival of Monumental Figural Art -- Orientalizing and Orientalism -- Ceramic Art in Later Archaic Times -- Dress Codes and the Rise of Civil Society -- Tripods -- Symposia and Their Aristocratic Origins -- Monumental Architecture -- Urban Plans -- Houses and Archaic Society -- An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- 11 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life -- Introduction -- Political Developments -- Historical Outline -- Demography and Urbanism -- The Classical Countryside -- The Cultural Biography of Rural Surface Sites -- The Ceramic Assemblage -- The Economy Beyond Agriculture -- 12 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Classical Greece -- Classical Art: General Considerations -- Temple Art in the Classical Period -- Theaters -- Gender Relations, Family, and Class: The Iconography of Figured Vases and Tombstones -- Houses and Town Planning -- Country Houses -- An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- 13 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenisticto Early Roman Imperial Times -- Introduction -- Settlement and Population -- Rural Transformation -- Urban Life in Hellenistic Times -- Urban Life in Early Roman Times -- The Character of Roman Cities -- Hellenistic and Early Roman Trade, Economics, and Craft Production -- 14 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece -- Urban Residential Life -- Hellenistic Art -- Art and Architecture in the Aegean in the Early Roman Period -- An Annales Perspective -- A Personal View -- 15 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life -- Introduction -- The Middle to Late Roman Countryside -- Towns in the Middle to Late Roman Eras -- Death and Burial -- Ceramics, Economics, and Trade. ; 16 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Middle to Late Roman Greece -- Houses and Society in the Later Roman Aegean -- Symbolic Culture -- Public Non-ecclesiastical Architecture -- "Style" in Late Antiquity -- Icons -- An Annales Perspective -- A Personal View -- Part III: The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greece in its Historical Context -- 17 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece -- Introduction -- Chronology -- The Early Byzantine (EB) Period (ca. 650-842 AD) -- The Middle Byzantine Peak: Ninth Century to 1204 AD -- The Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453 AD) -- Byzantine Everyday Material Culture -- Byzantine Burial Traditions -- 18 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in the Byzantine Aegean -- The Early Byzantine Period (ca. 650-843 AD) -- Symbolic Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era (843-1204 AD) -- Symbolic Culture of the Late Byzantine Era -- The Urban Built Environment -- Rural Settlement Design and House Culture -- An Annales Perspective -- A Personal View -- 19 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece -- Introduction -- Frankish Society -- Stone Centers of Power -- Frankish Towns -- Frankish Churches and Monasteries -- Ceramics and Frankish-Late Byzantine Society -- The Fourteenth-Century Collapse -- An Annales Perspective -- A Personal View -- 20 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population, Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments -- Introduction -- Rural Villages in the Early Ottoman Period -- Other Monuments of the Early Ottoman Era -- Urban Life in Early Ottoman Times -- The Crisis of the Middle Ottoman Era -- The Late Turkish Era -- Late Ottoman Rural Life -- Late Ottoman Town Life -- Ceramics of the Ottoman-Venetian Era -- 21 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Ottoman and Venetian Greece. ; Domestic Housing in the Post-Medieval Era -- Urban Planning and House Forms in Ottoman Times -- Vernacular Housing in the Countryside -- Religious, Military, and Other Public Architecture -- Material Culture in the Middle to Late Ottoman Era -- An Annales Perspective -- A Personal View -- 22 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece -- Introduction -- The Historical Context -- The Material Culture of the Early Modern Era -- Changes in the Countryside -- Urban Change -- Industrial Archaeology -- Symbolic Material Culture -- An Annaliste Perspective -- A Personal View -- Plates -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the field's traditional focus on art and architecture has been combined with a rigorous overview of the latest archaeological evidence forming a truly comprehensive work on Greek civilization. A unique single-volume exploration of the extraordinary development of human society in Greece from the earliest human traces up till the early 20th century AD Provides 22 chapters and an introduction chronologically surveying the phases of Greek culture, with over 200 illustrations Features over 200 images of art, architecture, and ancient texts, and integrates new archaeological discoveries for a more detailed picture of the Greece past, its landscape, and its people Explains how scientific advances in archaeology have provided a broader perspective on Greek prehistory and history Offers extensive notes on the text, available online, including additional details and references for the serious researcher and amateur"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Complete Archaeology of Greece
• ISBN: 1-118-25517-8; 1-118-25518-6; 1-118-25520-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830604203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II