Going West?: The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations Between the Bosporus and the Carpathians

ISBN-13: 9780367887131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Agathe Reingruber; Zoi Tsirtsoni; Petranka Nedelcheva

Opis

Going West? questions how the Neolithic way of life was diffused from the Near East to Europe via Anatolia. The contributors have focused their studies on the vast area of the Eastern Balkans and the Pontic region between the Bosporus and the rivers Strymon, Danube and Dniestr, offering an overview of the current state of research

Recenzje

"...it is very useful to have this volume on bookshelves to continue the dialogue that was begun in the previous volumes on the topic." Metin I. Eren, Kent State University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction

Northwest Anatolia: A Border or a Bridge between Anatolia and the Balkans during the Early Neolithic Period?
Necmi Karul

Anatolia and the Balkans: The Role of the Black Sea between ‘East’ and ‘West’ during the Neolithic Period
Eylem Özdoğan

Whither the Aegean Neolithic?
Burcin Erdoğu

Identifying the Earliest Neolithic Settlements in the Southeastern Balkans: Methodological Considerations based on the Recent Geoarchaeological Investigations at Dikili Tash (Greek Eastern Macedonia)
Laurent Lespez, Zoï Tsirtsoni, Pascal Darcque, Dimitra Malamidou, Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki and Arthur Glais

Lithic Industries and their Role in Neolithisation Models in Southeast Europe
Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva, Malgorzata Kaczanowska and Janusz K. Kozłowski

Thrace, post-6000 BC
Vassil Nikolov

The First Balkan Neolithic in the Lower Danube Plain and the Making of a Pottery Tradition
Laurens Thissen

The Beginning of the Neolithic Way of Life in the Eastern Lower Danube Area: A View from the North
Agathe Reingruber

The Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic between Western Anatolia and the Lower Danube: Evidence from Burial Customs
Clemens Lichter

Appendix: 14C Database for Southeast Europe and Adjacent Areas (6600–5000 cal BC)
Laurens Thissen and Agathe Reingruber

O autorze

Agathe Reingruber, researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin, is specialized on topics related to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of southeast Europe (Greece, Turkey, Romania). She is currently running a project in northeastern Thessaly focusing on population dynamics.

Zoï Tsirtsoni, researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS, Laboratory Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité, Nanterre), is specialized on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods in the Aegean and southern Balkans. She is co-director of the Greek-French research project at the multilayer (tell) settlement of Dikili Tash in northern Greece.

Petranka Nedelcheva, Assistant Professor at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), is a lithics specialist for the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods in southeast Europe, western Anatolia and the Caucasus. She participates in several projects in Greece, Turkey, Romania and Georgia.