Overview
This work is a meticulous and comprehensive survey of the pre-Neolithic archaeology of Italy. Most publications on the prehistory of Italy are written in Italian and are not readily available to the international archaeological community. This book however, is designed for an audience of English-speaking readers, and aims to synthesize more than 600,000 years of Italian prehistory - beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers of the early Holocene. The text is presented with full reference to the original sources and within the context of ongoing debates in European and world prehistory. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climatic change, modifications of the landscape, fauna and flora, and environmental adaptation and exploitation and includes detailed descriptions of the most important sites.
Full Product Details
Author: Margherita Mussi
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition: 2002 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 2.270kg
ISBN: 9780306464638
ISBN 10: 0306464632
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 31 October 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Prepublication praise: This comprehensive volume on Italian prehistory provides a wealth of information that will improve readers' access to the archaeological and faunal records which have been gathered by several generations of Italian researchers and will undoubtedly serve many scholars and students who are either not at all or only partially familiar with Italian prehistory. The author produces a most interesting picture of Paleolithic Italy. (Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University) A must for college and university programs offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the Paleolithic[...] (Choice, 39:9, 2002) Magnifico! Bravissimo! Margherita Mussi has done the virtually impossible and done it very well (and in a language that is not her native tongue): a book that thoroughly, intelligently synthesizes the Pleistocene prehistory of Italy.[...] This is a landmark book.[...] If you read one work on the Italian Paleolithic, Mussi's magnus opus is it. (Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002)
Prepublication praise: This comprehensive volume on Italian prehistory provides a wealth of information that will improve readers' access to the archaeological and faunal records which have been gathered by several generations of Italian researchers and will undoubtedly serve many scholars and students who are either not at all or only partially familiar with Italian prehistory. The author produces a most interesting picture of Paleolithic Italy. (Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University) A must for college and university programs offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the Paleolithic[...] (Choice, 39:9, 2002) Magnifico! Bravissimo! Margherita Mussi has done the virtually impossible and done it very well (and in a language that is not her native tongue): a book that thoroughly, intelligently synthesizes the Pleistocene prehistory of Italy.[...] This is a landmark book.[...] If you read one work on the Italian Paleolithic, Mussi's magnus opus is it. (Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002)
Prepublication praise: <br> This comprehensive volume on Italian prehistory provides a wealth of information that will improve readers' access to the archaeological and faunal records which have been gathered by several generations of Italian researchers and will undoubtedly serve many scholars and students who are either not at all or only partially familiar with Italian prehistory. The author produces a most interesting picture of Paleolithic Italy. <br>(Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University) <br> A must for college and university programs offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the Paleolithic[...] <br>(Choice, 39: 9, 2002)<br> Magnifico! Bravissimo! Margherita Mussi has done the virtually impossible and done it very well (and in a language that is not her native tongue): a book that thoroughly, intelligently synthesizes the Pleistocene prehistory of Italy.[...] This is a landmark book.[...] If you read one work on the Italian Paleolithic, Mussi's magnus opus is it. <br>(Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002)
