Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity

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Psychology Press, 2000 - History - 350 pages

Douglass 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
15
Building social environments 65005500
39
in southcentral Bulgaria
51
pottery containers
76
164
104
Continuity or change? Burials lithics plants and animals
116
176
117
Continuities expansion and acceleration of building
153
Burial and expressive material culture 55003600
193
Cabarevo b flat copper axe from Devebargan
212
the Balkans after
240
exclusion incorporation
263
Notes
288
Index
339
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Douglass W. Bailey is Lecturer in European Prehistory at the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria and Romania.

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