The ancient Greek farmstead / Maeve McHugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, Maeve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture, Ancient--Greece.

Agriculture, Ancient.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Summary:

Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for farmsteads dating to the Classical-Hellenistic period of mainland Greece, with the purpose of understanding how these sites fulfilled agricultural roles as centres for occupation, storage, and processing for those working the land.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Ancient farming and farmsteads: sources, problems, and debates 13

3 The archaeology of farmsteads and their agricultural role 44

4 The connected countryside: agricultural networks in the northeastern Peloponnese 99

5 Farming and the ancient agricultural economy 132

6 The ancient Greek farmstead 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index.

ISBN:

1785706403

9781785706400

OCLC:

960839136