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Social Change in Aegean Prehistory
Corien (Ed) Wiersma
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Description for Social Change in Aegean Prehistory
Paperback. Explains the processes of social and economic change from the Early Bronze Age III to the Late Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 - 1600 BC) in the southern Aegean, using pottery, burials and settlement evidence. Editor(s): Voutsaki, Sofia; Wiersma, Corien. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 254 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
This volume brings together papers that discuss social change. The main focus is on the Early Helladic III to Late Helladic I period in southern Greece, but also touches upon the surrounding islands. This specific timeframe enables us to consider how mainland societies recovered from a `crisis' and how they eventually developed into the differentiated, culturally receptive and competitive social formations of the early Mycenaean period. Material changes are highlighted in the various papers, ranging from pottery and burials to domestic architecture and settlement structures, followed by discussions of how these changes relate to social change. A variety of ... Read more
This volume brings together papers that discuss social change. The main focus is on the Early Helladic III to Late Helladic I period in southern Greece, but also touches upon the surrounding islands. This specific timeframe enables us to consider how mainland societies recovered from a `crisis' and how they eventually developed into the differentiated, culturally receptive and competitive social formations of the early Mycenaean period. Material changes are highlighted in the various papers, ranging from pottery and burials to domestic architecture and settlement structures, followed by discussions of how these changes relate to social change. A variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785702198
SKU
V9781785702198
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About Corien (Ed) Wiersma
C. W. Wiersma is Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She specialises in Bronze Age ceramics and house architecture in the Mediterranean. S. Voutsaki is Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has been Director of the Northern Cemetery, Ayios Vasilios Project since 2011 and was previously Director of the Argos Tumuli ... Read more
Reviews for Social Change in Aegean Prehistory
...a very important read for those interested in the explanation of social change and for Aegean prehistorians in particular. Nicely illustrated throughout, with maps, drawings, graphs, charts and images, this publication certainly achieves the goal set at the beginning, in the Groningen conference: to sustain the momentum in the study and better understanding of social life in the Aegean from ... Read more