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Beyond the Acropolis / Tjeerd H. van Andel and Curtis N. Runnels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andel, Tjeerd H. van, author.
- Runnels, Curtis N., author.{del}.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Rural conditions.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Tables, Maps, and Figures
- Introduction. Bright Dots on a Shadowed Landscape
- One A Greek Countryside
- Two Walking in the Fields: Archaeology Without Digging
- Three Hunting the Wild Ass: Earliest Man in the Southern Argolid
- Four An Outpost of the Agricultural Revolution
- Five Civilization Coming
- Six At the Edge of a Greater World
- Seven Byzantine Chapels to Beach Hotels
- Eight Learning to Take Care of the Soil
- Nine Growth and Decline: A History of People
- Epilogue. What Next?
- Glossary
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 27, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6677-0
- OCLC:
- 1312725915
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