The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC by Colin Renfrew (PDF)

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Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew’s groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again.Table of ContentsForeword by John Cherry Introduction to the 2009 Edition Civilisation The Explanation of Culture Change The Multiplier Effect The Minoan-Mycenean Civilisation and its Origins Part I – Culture Sequence: The Neolithic Background Crete in the Third Millennium BC Mainland Greece in the Third Millennium BC The Eastern Aegean in the Third Millennium BC The Early Cycladic Culture Sequence The Grotta-Pelos Culture; The Keros-Syros Culture The Phylakopi I Culture; Aegean Interrelations and Chronology in the Third Millennium BC Part II – Culture Process: Patterns of Settlement and Population in the Prehistoric Aegean Natural Environment and the Subsistence Subsystem The Development of Aegean Metallurgy Craft Specialisation and the Transformation of the Physical Environment Social Systems Symbolic and Projective Sysems Trade, Communication and Innovation The Multiplier Effect in Action Appendices.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) was formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Jesus College Cambridge from 1986 to 1997. He has excavated at a number of sites in prehistoric Greece and in the Orkney Islands, and is the author of many publications, including Prehistory: the making of the human mind (2008). He is Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and was the recipient of the Balzan Prize in 2004.

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⭐Remains a landmark, must read for the specialist but accessible also to the “amateur”.

⭐Whole dating from 1972, this book is very usefull and provide interesting insights into Aegean archaeology that are applicable more generally.

⭐Received brand new and undamaged.The book itself is so famous in the archaeological field that it needs no comment.

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