Prehistoric Sitagroi
Prehistoric Sitagroi

Author: Ernestine S. Elster

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1938770838

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Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Volume 2 presents the concluding research on Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeastern Greece, excavated between 1968 and 1970. This volume offers a detailed report on the plant remains along with a full treatment of craft and technology: artifacts of adornment; tools of bone and flaked stone; artifacts and tools of bone and ground and polished stone (and petrology); tools of the spinner, weaver and mat maker; pottery technology; metallurgy; and special clay finds such as seals, miniatures, and utensils. This rich presentation offers unparalleled insights into the life of the prehistoric inhabitants of the area. Sitagroi now becomes one of the most comprehensively published sites from prehistoric Europe and will be indispensable for all those concerned with European prehistory.

Excavations at Sitagroi
Excavations at Sitagroi

Author: Colin Renfrew

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13:

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The first of 2 volumes reporting on excavations at a middle neolithic to early bronze age site in northeast Greece. Vol. 1 presents the full sequence of culture exposed by excavation of this settlement mound, 10.5 m deep. Further studies define the environment during the 3 millennia of occupation and clarify the changing pattern of human subsistence over time. The chronological relationships for the Aegean, the Balkans, and Anatolia are examined in detail.

The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania
The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania

Author: Lorenc Bejko

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 1178

ISBN-13: 1938770528

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The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient "Illyria"), home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later prehistory. Some were robbed long ago, others were reused for modern burials; few were excavated under scientific conditions. Modern understanding of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been shaped by the contents of such burial mounds. What inspired the systematic exploration of Lofkend by UCLA was more than the promise of an unplundered necropolis; it was also a chance to revisit the significance of this tumulus and its fellows for the emergence of urbanism and complexity in ancient Illyria. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

Hunting and Fishing in the Neolithic and Eneolithic
Hunting and Fishing in the Neolithic and Eneolithic

Author: Selena Vitezovic

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1789694671

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This volume contains 13 papers on hunting and fishing techniques, weapons and prey in the area from Anatolia to the Gibraltar region. Papers include specific case studies as well as syntheses of wider data sets and provide the latest methodological and theoretical perspectives on the role of hunting and fishing in early agricultural societies.

The Human Face of Radiocarbon
The Human Face of Radiocarbon

Author: Collectif

Publisher: MOM Éditions

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 2356681884

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This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary research program (“Balkans 4000”) financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by the editor between 2007 and 2011, when she was a member of the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée (Laboratory of Archaeology and Archaeometry). 192 new radiocarbon dates have been produced in the laboratories of Lyon, Saclay and Demokritos, from 34 archaeological sites, spanning the years from the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. They shed light on the evolution of human settlement during the late stages of the Neolithic period in Greece and Bulgaria, and more specifically on the transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age during the “obscure” 4th millennium BC. Thirty-one scholars, archaeologists as well as radiocarbon scientists, are signing the contributions.

The Archaeology of Ritual
The Archaeology of Ritual

Author: Evangelos Kyriakidis

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2007-12-31

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1938770390

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A wide spectrum of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance, students of religion, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists were all asked to think and comment on how ritual can be traced in archaeology and which ways ritual research can go in that discipline. The product is a fairly accurate representation of research on ritual and the archaeology of ritual: scholars from various disciplines, backgrounds and agendas, arguing mostly in the most logical fashion, yet with little agreement between them. So this book should not be seen as presenting one unified attitude towards ritual and its study in archaeology. It should rather be seen as a reflection of what the discourse in the archaeology of ritual is today. The outcome has been extremely thought-provoking, often controversial, but always of extremely high quality.

The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory
The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory

Author: Philip P. Betancourt

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 0876615361

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This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication of the Minoan farmhouse will appear subsequently, but this volume stands on its own as both an overview of the project and as a detailed study of the copper smelting workshop.

A Dictionary of Archaeology
A Dictionary of Archaeology

Author: Ian Shaw

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 0470751967

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This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.

Balkan Prehistory
Balkan Prehistory

Author: Douglass W. Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1134607083

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Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed for an archaeology of the Balkans and will be required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.