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 |
exclusion incorporation | 8 |
the Balkans before 6500 вс | 15 |
Building social environments 65005500 вс | 39 |
in southcentral Bulgaria | 51 |
pottery containers | 76 |
features from Achilleion phase IV | 98 |
Continuity or change? Burials lithics plants and animals | 116 |
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Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity Douglass Whitfield Bailey Limited preview - 2000 |
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Achilleion activities animals anthropomorphic anthropomorphic figurines appear areas assemblages Balkans beads blades bone buildings built environment Bulgaria burials cattle cemeteries cent ceramic ceremonies Chapter clay communities constructed contained contexts continued copper objects cultivation Danube decoration Dennell deposition developments distinct Divostin Durankulak early especially evidence expressive fifth millennium BC flint floorplans forms Franchthi Gatsov gold Gorges phase graphite grave grave-goods grazing groups hearths household houses identities Ilipinar important incised increase individual inhumations Karanovo landscape Lepenski Vir lithic lower Danube material culture Mesolithic millennia Neolithic northern Greece ornaments Ovcharovo ovens ovicaprids Özdoğan particular places patterns perhaps pit-huts pits plants pots pottery production Radovanović 1996a regions Romania Selevac Sesklo seventh millennium BC significant similar Sitagroi sixth Slatina social south-central Bulgaria southern Romania space Spondylus Starčevo stone suggest surface surface-level structures tell settlements tell villages Temnata tion Tringham upper Palaeolithic Varna vessels Vinča Vitelli Vlasac walls western Balkans zoomorphic