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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    18 December 2009
    04 October 2001
    ISBN:
    9780511612855
    9780521801812
    9780521000277
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612855
    Dimensions:
    (247 x 174 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.79kg, 372 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (247 x 174 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.59kg, 372 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Prehistory, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
    Series:
    Cambridge World Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Prehistory, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
    Series:
    Cambridge World Archaeology
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    Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, and their settlements provide the link between the first agricultural communities in the Near East and the subsequent spread of the new technologies to the Balkans and on to Western Europe. In this 2001 book, Catherine Perlès argues that the stimulus for the spread of agriculture to Europe was a colonisation movement involving small groups of maritime peoples. Drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological sources, including often neglected 'small finds', and introducing daring new perspectives on funerary rituals and the distribution of figurines, she constructs a complex and subtle picture of early Neolithic societies, overturning the traditional view that these societies were simple and self-sufficient.

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