Research Catalog

Title

Neolithic culture in Greece / editor, George A. Papathanassopoulos.

Publication

Athens : Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation : Museum of Cycladic Art, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Papathanasopoulos, G.
• Mouseio Kykladikēs Technēs
• Hidryma Nikolaou P. Goulandrē

Description

352 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 29 cm.

Summary

Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of archaeological finds that indicate the presence of Neolithic culture in present-day Greece. Contains a variety of illustrated essays about the Neolithic world, habitation, agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, tools, pottery, stone vessels, weaving, basketry, metallurgy, figurines and models, seals, jewellery, exchanges and relations, and burial customs, as well as Neolithic cultures in neighboring regions. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 339 pieces representing many of the items addressed in the essays. This catalog published for the exhibition won the prize of the Academy of Athens in 1997.

Subject

• To 146 B.C
• Neolithic period > Greece > Exhibitions
• Art, Prehistoric > Greece > Exhibitions
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Exhibitions
• Art, Cycladic > Exhibitions
• Greece > Antiquities > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog issued in connection with the exhibition held in 1996 at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-21).

Language (note)

• Includes texts translated from the Greek.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Neolithic world / K. Gallis -- Habitation in caves / G.A. Papathanassopoulos -- Neolithic settlements in Macedonia and Thrace / D.V. Grammenos -- [Habitation] : Epirus - the Ionian islands / A. Douzougli -- [Habitation] : Thessaly - the Northern Sporades / K. Kotsakis ... [et al.] -- [Habitation] : Central Greece / M. Pantelidou Gofa -- [Habitation] : Euboea / A. Sampson -- [Habitation] : The Peloponnese / E. Hatzipouliou ... [et al.] -- [Habitation] : The Cyclades and the Northeastern Aegean Islands / K.L. Zachos -- [Habitation] : The Dodecanese / A. Sampson -- [Habitation] : Crete / C. Davaras, Y. Tzedakis -- Agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing / K. Trandalidou -- Tools / A. Moundrea-Agrafioti.
• Pottery technology / K. Kotsakis -- [Pottery] : Macedonia - Thrace / Ch. Koukouli-Chryssanthaki -- [Pottery] : Epirus - the Ionian Islands / A. Douzougli -- [Pottery] : Thessaly - the Northern Sporades / K. Gallis -- [Pottery] : Central Greece / M. Pantelidou Gofa -- [Pottery] : Euboea / A. Sampson -- [Pottery] : the Peloponnese / A. Douzougli -- [Pottery] : the Cyclades / K.L. Zachos -- [Pottery] : the Northeastern Aegean Islands / P. Avgerinou -- [Pottery] : the Dodecanese / A. Sampson -- [Pottery] : Crete / C. Davaras -- Stone vessels / T. Devetzi -- Weaving - basketry / I. Tzachili -- Metallurgy / K.L. Zachos -- Figurines and models / Ch. Marangou.
• [Anthropomorphic figurines] : Macedonia - Thrace / Ch. Marangou -- [Anthropomorphic figurines] : Thessaly - the Northern Sporades - Central Greece / L. Orphanidi -- [Anthropomorphic figurines] : the Peloponnese / G.A. Papthanassopoulos -- [Anthropomorphic figurines] : the Aegean Islands / K.L. Zachos -- [Anthropomorphic figurines] : Crete / G. Rethemiotakis -- Zoomorphic figurines / G. Toufexis -- House models / G. Toufexis -- Seals / A. Onassoglou -- Shell, bone and stone jewellery / L. Karali -- Metal jewellery / K.L. Zachos -- Exchanges and relations / K. Kotsakis -- [The Neolithic culture in neighboring regions] : the Haimos penninsula / G. Kourtessi-Philippakis -- [The Neolithic culture in neighboring regions] : Cyprus / F. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou -- The transition to the Bronze Age : the Neolithic heritage / K. Demakopoulou.

ISBN

9607064151

OCLC

• 35794746
• SCSB-10397446

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Harvard Library