Overview

The history of archaeology is a history of great discoveries and a history of the debate about the human condition. It is a history of how we understand and link to our history, and it is unsurprising then that archaeology changes over time, bringing new perspectives to our view of the past. Thirty years on from Colin Renfrew's landmark publication, The Emergence of Civilisation, a group of Aegean prehistorians came together as part of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table discussions to acknowledge this ground-breaking work and to bring the subject up to date. They focus on the themes that Renfrew brought to archaeology through this work, and which continue to be of significance today: the way we characterise the context and the nature of change; the methodological procedures that should be followed; and the interpretation of the dynamics of past societies. Fourteen papers from the discussions, including contributions from John Cherry, Todd Whitelaw and Renfrew himself, examine a fascinating and diverse section of topics including; settlement, leadership and social status.

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Author:   John Barrett ,  Paul Halstead
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   No. 6
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9781842171660

ISBN 10:   1842171666
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Preface (John C. Barrett and Paul Halstead); List of Contributors; Sites, Settlement and Population in the Prehistoric Aegean Since The Emergence of Civilisation (John Cherry); Dual Emergence: Evolving Heterarchy, Exploding Hierarchy (Ilse Schoep and Carl Knappett); Filling in the 'Neolithic Background': Social Life and Social Transformation in the Aegean Before the Bronze Age (Peter Tomkins); The Emergence of Leadership and the Rise of Civilisation in the Aegean (James C Wright); Iconographies of Value: Words, People and Things in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (John Bennet); Emerging Civilised Values; The Consumption and Imitation of Egyptian Stone Vessels in EMII-MMI Crete and its Wider Eastern Mediterranean Context (Andrew Bevan); Getting Past Consumption and Competition: Legitimacy and Consensus in the Shaft Graves (Aaron Wolpert); Some Light on the Early Origins of Them All: Generalisation and the Explanation of Civilisation Revisited (John C Barrett and Krystalli Damilati); Constructing a Region: the Contested Landscapes of Prepalatial Mesara (Maria Relaki); Life After Mediterranean Polyculture: the Subsistence Subsystem and the Emergence of Civilisation Revisited (Paul Halstead); Simplicity vs Complexity: Social Relationships and the MHI Community of Asine (Theodora Georgousopoulou); The House of the Tiles at Lerna: Dimensions of 'Social Complexity' (Olympia Peperaki); Alternative Pathways to Complexity in the Southern Aegean (Todd Whitelaw); Rethinking The Emergence (Colin Renfrew).

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