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The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia
Mariya Ivanova
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Description for The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia
hardcover. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. Num Pages: 404 pages, 76 b/w illus. 8 maps 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 1QSK; 3B; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1006.
The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discussions about the impact of complex Near Eastern societies on European societies, and the repercussions of early urbanization across Eurasia. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. It penetrates artificial boundaries imposed by traditions, politics and language to encompass both the European and Asiatic coasts and both Eastern European and Western scholarly literature. With a critical compilation and synthesis of archaeological data, this study situates ... Read more
The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discussions about the impact of complex Near Eastern societies on European societies, and the repercussions of early urbanization across Eurasia. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. It penetrates artificial boundaries imposed by traditions, politics and language to encompass both the European and Asiatic coasts and both Eastern European and Western scholarly literature. With a critical compilation and synthesis of archaeological data, this study situates ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107032194
SKU
V9781107032194
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99-8
About Mariya Ivanova
Mariya Ivanova is lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and research fellow at the German Archaeological Institute. She has participated in field projects in Turkey and in southeast and central Europe. She is author of Fortified Settlements in the Balkans, in the Aegean and Western Anatolia, c.5000–2000 BC and has published articles in Prähistorische Zeitschrift, the Oxford ... Read more
Reviews for The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia
'This is the first comprehensive synthesis in the English language of the archaeological cultures surrounding the regions of the Black Sea … Of exceptional interest are the relationships [drawn] between the different culture and regions … Of outstanding significance is the evidence displaying the cultural interactions that bought the Caucasus, Anatolia, Iran, the Eurasian steppes, and Central Asia into patterns ... Read more