Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and IdentityDouglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis, in English, of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6,500 and 2,000 BC; much research on the prehistory of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before now, because of linguistic barriers. Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the period, which focus on the origins of agriculture and animal breeding. He demonstrates that this was a period when monumental social and material changes occurred in the lives of the people in this region, with new technologies and ways of displaying identity. Balkan Prehistory will be required reading for everyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe. |
Contents
Fundamental changes in living | 6 |
the Balkans before 6500 BC | 15 |
Building social environments 65005500 BC | 39 |
in southcentral Bulgaria | 51 |
pottery containers | 76 |
features from Achilleion phase IV | 98 |
Continuity or change? Burials lithics plants and animals | 116 |
Continuities expansion and acceleration of building | 153 |
the Balkans after | 240 |
distribution and numbering of burials and centre | 248 |
exclusion incorporation | 263 |
Notes | 288 |
TABLES | 289 |
116 | 303 |
153 | 321 |
| 339 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Achilleion activities animals anthropomorphic anthropomorphic figurines appear Archaeology areas assemblages Bacho Kiro Balkans beads bone buildings built environment Bulgaria burials cattle Cave cemeteries cenotaphs cent ceramic Chapter clay communities contained contexts copper cultivation Danube decoration Delchevo Dennell deposition distinct Divostin Durankulak early evidence Excavations expressive fifth millennium BC floorplans forms Franchthi Gatsov gold Golyamo Delchevo Gorges phase grave grave-goods groups hearths household houses identities Ilipinar incised increase individual inhumations Karanovo Kozłowski landscape Lepenski Vir lithic lower Danube material culture Mesolithic millennia Neolithic northern Greece objects ovicaprids Özdoğan patterns perhaps pit-huts plants post-6500 BC Balkans pots pottery prehistory Radovanović 1996a Razkopki regions Romania Selevac Serbia Sesklo seventh millennium BC significant similar Sitagroi social south-central Bulgaria southern Romania space Spondylus Srejović Starčevo stone Studia Praehistorica suggests surface surface-level structures tell villages Temnata tion Todorova Tringham upper Palaeolithic Vajsov Varna vessels Vinča Vitelli Vlasac zoomorphic