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The Ancient Greek Farmstead
Maeve Mchugh
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Description for The Ancient Greek Farmstead
Paperback. A new study of ancient Greek farmsteads from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods combining archaeological and textual data to demonstrate the fundamental role these sites played in ancient Greek agriculture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA; HDDK; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. 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. ... Read more
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785706400
SKU
V9781785706400
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Ref
99-2
About Maeve Mchugh
Maeve McHugh is a Research Associate at the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin. She specializes in classical archaeology with a focus on the archaeology of rural life in ancient Greece and the digital modelling of ancient landscapes. She is an active field archaeologist and has taken part in regional surveys in mainland Greece and the Greek islands. Maeve currently participates ... Read more
Reviews for The Ancient Greek Farmstead
[a] very welcome because it is the first time that the ancient Greek farmstead is treated integrally, thereby tying together a very fragmented scholarly discourse.
Journal of Greek Archaeology
Journal of Greek Archaeology