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Alepotrypa Cave at Diros Bay, Lakonia, Greece, is a massive karstic formation of consecutive chambers ending at a lake. The cave was excavated by G. Papathanassopoulos from 1970 to 2006. In conjunction with the surrounding area, it was used as a complementary habitation area, burial site, and place for ceremonial activity during the Neolithic c 6000 to 3200 BC. As a sealed, single-component, archaeological site, the Neolithic settlement complex of Alepotrypa Cave is one of the richest sites in Greece and Europe in terms of number of artifacts, preservation of biological materials, volume of undisturbed deposits, and horizontal exposure of archaeological surfaces of past human activity and this publication is an important contribution to ongoing archaeological research of the Neolithic Age in Greece in particular, but also in Anatolia, the Balkans and Europe in general. This edited volume offers a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the results of approximately 40 years of excavation and analysis. It includes numerous chemical analyses and a much needed long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools, faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific locations of human activities and ceremonies inside the cave, as well as a site description and the history of the excavation conducted by G. Papathanasopoulos.

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"""The editors and contributors are to be commended for compiling an impressive array of specialized studies that highlight the significance of Alepotrypa Cave as both a major Neolithic site and an example of a fruitful collaboration between Greek and American scholars.""-- ""American Journal Of Archaeology"" ""Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece is the first definitive publication on the major Neolithic settlement, cemetery and ceremonial site of Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, which is virtually unique in its preservation of undisturbed archaeological deposits including biological material, a wealth of artifacts and burials, following collapse of the cave roof. The twenty-three chapters of Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece bring this significant site to the attention of the archaeological community, after more than 40 years of excavations. Furthermore, this volume tightens the relation between the sciences and the humanities, materiality and social practices, and in particular archaeological science and observation with anthropological socialized interpretation.""-- ""SirReadaLot.org, #231 July 2018"""

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece is the first definitive publication on the major Neolithic settlement, cemetery and ceremonial site of Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, which is virtually unique in its preservation of undisturbed archaeological deposits including biological material, a wealth of artifacts and burials, following collapse of the cave roof. The twenty-three chapters of Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece bring this significant site to the attention of the archaeological community, after more than 40 years of excavations. Furthermore, this volume tightens the relation between the sciences and the humanities, materiality and social practices, and in particular archaeological science and observation with anthropological socialized interpretation. --SirReadaLot.org, #231 July 2018

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece is the first definitive publication on the major Neolithic settlement, cemetery and ceremonial site of Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, which is virtually unique in its preservation of undisturbed archaeological deposits including biological material, a wealth of artifacts and burials, following collapse of the cave roof. The twenty-three chapters of Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece bring this significant site to the attention of the archaeological community, after more than 40 years of excavations. Furthermore, this volume tightens the relation between the sciences and the humanities, materiality and social practices, and in particular archaeological science and observation with anthropological socialized interpretation.--SirReadaLot.org, #231 July 2018

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Anastasia Papathanasiou is an archaeologist with the Greek Ministry of Culture in the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology. Her research interests focus on the areas of bioarchaeology, paleopathology, paleodiet, stables isotope analysis, mortuary practices, and prehistoric archaeology. She conducts physical anthropological and archaeological research in Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece. William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. His research interests focus on the evolution of agricultural villages in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age. He conducts collaborative archaeological research in Hungary on the Koros Regional Archaeological Project, and in Greece on The Diros Project. Daniel J. Pullen is Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Michael L. Galaty is Professor of Anthropology at Mississippi State University, where he is Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, and Interim Director of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology. He conducts field research in Albania and Greece, with a focus on the origins of complexity.

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