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Title

The emergence of civilisation revisited / edited by John C. Barrett and Paul Halstead.

Author

Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. Round Table (7th : 2002 : Sheffield, England)

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] D. Brown Bk. Co., c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Barrett, John C.
• Halstead, Paul
• Round Table on Aegean Archaeology (7th : 2002 : Sheffield, England)

Description

xiv, 274 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 6

Uniform Title

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology 6.

Subject

• Renfrew, Colin, 1937- > Congresses
• Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
• 3500 b.C.-800 b.C
• Civilization, Aegean > Congresses
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Aegean Sea Region > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Aegean Sea Region > Congresses
• Civilisation égéenne > Congrès
• Aegean Sea Region > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• Proceedings of the seventh Round Table of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology held on the 30th anniversary of the publication of Colin Renfrew's The emergence of civilisation (1972).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Chapter 14 revisited : sites, settlement and population in the prehistoric Aegean since The Emergence of Civilisation / John Cherry -- 2. Dual emergence : evolving heterarchy, exploding hierarchy / Ilse Schoep andCarl Knappett -- 3. Filling in the 'neolithic background' : social life and social transformation in the Aegean before the Bronze age / Peter Tomkins -- 4. The emergence of leadership and the rise of civilization in the Aegean / James C. Wright -- 5. Iconographies of value : words, people and things in the late Bronze age Aegean / John Bennet -- 6. Emerging civilized values? : the consumption and imitation of Egyptian stone vessels in EMII-MMI crete and its wider Eastern Mediterranean context / Andrew Bevan -- 7. Getting past consumption and competition : legitimacy and consensus in the shaft graves / Aaron Wolpert -- 8. 'Some light on the early origins of them all' : generalization and the explanation of civilization revisited / John C. Barrett and Krystalli Damilati -- 9. Constructing a region : the contested landscapes of prepalatial Mesara / Maria Relaki -- 10. Life after Mediterranean polyculture : the subsistence subsystem and the emergence of civilisation revisited / Paul Halstead -- 11. Simplicity vs. complexity : social relationships and the MHI community of Asine / Theodora Georgousopoulou -- 12. The house of the tiles at Lerna : dimensions of 'social complexity' / Olympia Peperaki -- 13. Alternative pathways to complexity in the southern Aegean / Todd Whitelaw -- 14. Rethinking The Emergence / Colin Renfrew.

ISBN

• 1842171666 (pbk.)
• 9781842171660 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005282167

OCLC

• 60361212
• SCSB-10798593

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library