The Complete Archaeology of Greece E-Book

John Bintliff

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1428

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the field's traditional focus on art and architecture has been combined with a rigorous overview of the latest archaeological evidence forming a truly comprehensive work on Greek civilization.

*Extensive notes on the text are freely available online at Wiley Online Library, and include additional details and references for both the serious researcher and amateur

• A unique single-volume exploration of the extraordinary development of human society in Greece from the earliest human traces up till the early 20th century AD
• Provides 22 chapters and an introduction chronologically surveying the phases of Greek culture, with over 200 illustrations
• Features over 200 images of art, architecture, and ancient texts, and integrates new archaeological discoveries for a more detailed picture of the Greece past, its landscape, and its people
• Explains how scientific advances in archaeology have provided a broader perspective on Greek prehistory and history

Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

Leseprobe

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Color Plates

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory

1 The Dynamic Land

Introduction

Geological and Geomorphological History

Climate

Vegetation

Soils

Erosion

Ethnoarchaeology

2 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic in Greece

The Wider Framework

The Hunter-Gatherers of Greece

The Lifeworld of Hunter-Gatherers in Greece

An Annaliste Integration of Processes at Different Timescales

A Personal View

3 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece

Introduction

Origins of the Greek Neolithic

Settlement Patterns

The Agropastoral Economy

Craft Production, Exchange, and Neolithic Material Culture

Social Relations

Neolithic Symbolic Behavior and Material Culture

General Considerations for Neolithic Greece

An Annaliste Perspective on the Integration of Different Timescales

A Personal View

4 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age

Introduction

The Early Bronze Age Mainland: The Early Helladic Culture

Early Minoan Crete

Early Cycladic Culture

The Early Bronze Age in Northern Greece

The Early Bronze Age: An Annaliste Perspective

The Early Bronze Age: A Personal View

5 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The Minoan Civilization

Introduction

Aegean integration into an Eastern Mediterranean world system?

Chronological context and periodization

Landscape Archaeology and Population, and the Rural Economy

Palace Design

Central Courts and the evolution of the “Palatial Complexes”

Who lived in the Minoan Palaces?

Relations Between “Palatial Centers”: Toward a More Historical and Regional Perspective

The Minoans Abroad

The End of the New Palaces

Writing and Administration

Pottery Styles

Other Products

Burial Archaeology

Minoan Religion: Plazas, Temples, Peak Sanctuaries, and Sacred Caves

Strengths and Weaknesses of the New Model for Minoan “Court-Complex” Society

Aspects of Symbolic Culture

The Minoan Civilization: An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

6 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and the Mainland

The Cycladic Middle to Late Bronze Age

The Middle Helladic and Early Late Helladic Periods on the Mainland

An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

7 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the Wider Aegean: The Mycenaean Civilization

Historical Development: The Mature Civilization and Its Collapse

The End of Mycenaean Civilization

The Mycenaean Settlement System

Towns and Palaces

Construction Works of Monumental Scale

Religion

Pots and Trade

Greece and the Aegean Beyond the Palaces

Mycenaean Art

The Mycenaean Era: An Annales Perspective

The Mycenaeans: A Personal View

Part II: The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Greece in its Longer-term Context

8 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a “Dark Age”

Introduction

Light Reappears in the “Dark Age”

Landscape and Settlement from Early Iron Age to Archaic Times

Developments in Northern Greece

Settlement and House Plans

Technology and Trade

Social Archaeology

The Origins of the Greek Temple

Bronze Tripods

An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

9 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life

Introduction

Political Developments

The Archaic City

Extramural and Panhellenic Sanctuaries

Expanding Horizons

Trade and Colonization

Coinage

The Uses of Literacy

10 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Society in Archaic Greece

The Revival of Monumental Figural Art

Orientalizing and Orientalism

Ceramic Art in Later Archaic Times

Dress Codes and the Rise of Civil Society

Tripods

Symposia and Their Aristocratic Origins

Monumental Architecture

Urban Plans

Houses and Archaic Society

An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

11 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life

Introduction

Political Developments

Historical Outline

Demography and Urbanism

The Classical Countryside

The Cultural Biography of Rural Surface Sites

The Ceramic Assemblage

The Economy Beyond Agriculture

12 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Classical Greece

Classical Art: General Considerations

Temple Art in the Classical Period

Theaters

Gender Relations, Family, and Class: The Iconography of Figured Vases and Tombstones

Houses and Town Planning

Country Houses

An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

13 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenisticto Early Roman Imperial Times

Introduction

Settlement and Population

Rural Transformation

Urban Life in Hellenistic Times

Urban Life in Early Roman Times

The Character of Roman Cities

Hellenistic and Early Roman Trade, Economics, and Craft Production

14 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece

Urban Residential Life

Hellenistic Art

Art and Architecture in the Aegean in the Early Roman Period

An Annales Perspective

A Personal View

15 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life

Introduction

The Middle to Late Roman Countryside

Towns in the Middle to Late Roman Eras

Death and Burial

Ceramics, Economics, and Trade

16 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Middle to Late Roman Greece

Houses and Society in the Later Roman Aegean

Symbolic Culture

Public Non-ecclesiastical Architecture

“Style” in Late Antiquity

Icons

An Annales Perspective

A Personal View

Part III: The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greece in its Historical Context

17 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece

Introduction

Chronology

The Early Byzantine (EB) Period (ca. 650–842 AD)

The Middle Byzantine Peak: Ninth Century to 1204 AD

The Late Byzantine Period (1204–1453 AD)

Byzantine Everyday Material Culture

Byzantine Burial Traditions

18 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in the Byzantine Aegean

The Early Byzantine Period (ca. 650–843 AD)

Symbolic Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era (843–1204 AD)

Symbolic Culture of the Late Byzantine Era

The Urban Built Environment

Rural Settlement Design and House Culture

An Annales Perspective

A Personal View

19 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece

Introduction

Frankish Society

Stone Centers of Power

Frankish Towns

Frankish Churches and Monasteries

Ceramics and Frankish-Late Byzantine Society

The Fourteenth-Century Collapse

An Annales Perspective

A Personal View

20 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population, Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments

Introduction

Rural Villages in the Early Ottoman Period

Other Monuments of the Early Ottoman Era

Urban Life in Early Ottoman Times

The Crisis of the Middle Ottoman Era

The Late Turkish Era

Late Ottoman Rural Life

Late Ottoman Town Life

Ceramics of the Ottoman-Venetian Era

21 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Ottoman and Venetian Greece

Domestic Housing in the Post-Medieval Era

Urban Planning and House Forms in Ottoman Times

Vernacular Housing in the Countryside

Religious, Military, and Other Public Architecture

Material Culture in the Middle to Late Ottoman Era

An Annales Perspective

A Personal View

22 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece

Introduction

The Historical Context

The Material Culture of the Early Modern Era

Changes in the Countryside

Urban Change

Industrial Archaeology

Symbolic Material Culture

An Annaliste Perspective

A Personal View

Plates

Index

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bintliff, J. L. ( John L.)The complete archaeology of Greece : from hunter-gatherers to the 20th century AD / John Bintliff. – 1st ed.p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-5418-5 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-4051-5419-2 (paperback) 1. Greece–Antiquities. 2. Greece–Civilization. 3. Architecture, Ancient–Greece. 4. Art, Ancient–Greece. 5. Excavations (Archaeology)–Greece. I. Title.DF77.B626 2012949.5–dc23

2011049091

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This book is dedicated to

THE PEOPLE OF GREECE

for whom ‘Philoxenia’ (kindness to strangers)

has always been an essential quality

of Aegean life

List of Figures and Tables

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