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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Douglass W. (Douglass Whitfield), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Balkan Peninsula.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Prehistoric peoples--Balkan Peninsula.

Prehistoric peoples.

Balkan Peninsula--Antiquities.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-60707-5

1-134-60708-3

1-280-31769-8

0-203-46196-7

9786610317691

9780203461969

OCLC:

310464424