Emergence of Civilisation
The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC
Published on 30. June 2017
650 pages
978-1-78570-775-9 (ISBN)
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Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew''s groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes to the Illustrations
- Site map
- Foreword, by John Cherry (2010)
- Preface and Introduction (2010)
- Preface (1972)
- Acknowledgements (1972)
- Introduction
- 1 Civilisation
- 2 The Explanation of Culture Change
- 3 The Multiplier Effect
- 4 The Minoan-Mycenean Civilisation and its Origins
- Part I Culture Sequence
- 5 The Neolithic Background
- 6 Crete in the Third Millennium BC
- 7 Mainland Greece in the Third Millennium BC
- 8 The Third Millenium BC in the Eastern Aegean
- 9 The Early Cycladic Culture Sequence
- 10 The Grotta-Pelos Culture
- 11 The Keros-Syros Culture
- 12 The Phylakopi I Culture
- 13 Aegean Interrelations and Chronology in the Third Millennium BC
- Part II Culture Process
- 14 Patterns of Settlement and Population in the Prehistoric Aegean
- 15 Natural Environment and the Subsistence Subsystem
- 16 The Development of Aegean Metallurgy
- 17 Craft Specialisation and the Transformation of the Physical Environment
- 18 Social Systems
- 19 Symbolic and Projective Systems
- 20 Trade, Communication and Innovation
- 21 The Multiplier Effect in Action
- Appendixes
- APPENDIX 1
- Gazetteer of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites in the Cycladic Islands
- APPENDIX 2
- Local Groups with the Grotta-Pelos and Keros-Syros Cultures of the Cyclades
- APPENDIX 3
- Data for the Matrix Analysis of the Early Cycladic Cemeteries
- Bibliography
- Full Captions to the Plates
- Index
- Plates
