Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past

ISBN-13: 9780804726214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 236 str.

Tjeerd H. Van Andel; Curtis Neil Runnels

Opis

Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This text studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use. The book should interest all those interested in archaeology in the widest sense of the word and those keen to understand man's relationship to the natural landscape. The authors aim to put the reader in the position of the archaeologist. The excitement and frustrations of archaeological fieldwork are conveyed in the description of methods of work.