The Protogeometric Aegean : the archaeology of the late eleventh and tenth centuries BC / Irene S. Lemos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemos, I. S. (Irene S.)

Series:

Oxford monographs on classical archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Aegean.

Greece--History--Dorian Invasions, ca. 1125-1025 B.C.

Greece.

History.

Greece--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 245 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This is an up-to-date survey of Aegean archaeology at the beginning of the Iron Age (late eleventh and tenth centuries BC). There are chapters on pottery, metal finds, burial customs, architectural remains (and how to use them to understand the social and political structure of the society), cult practices, and developments towards state formation. The book will be useful to field archaeologists, historians of ancient Greece, and students.

Notes:

Based, in part, on the author's thesis (D. Phil.--University of Oxford, 1989) under the title: Regional characteristics in the protogeometric period.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xviii]-xxiv) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199253447

OCLC:

59464237