This fascicle is the thirteenth in the series of Level One publications of the excavations at Franchthi Cave and is the third and final installment of the report on the site s chipped stone industries. The objective of Catherine Perles s study is to make sense of the chronology of the site in its economic, technological, and typological dimensions. All phases of the Neolithic are represented at Franchthi Cave. Rich with more than 3,000 reconstructed pieces, this study offers a representative and technical typology that is unequaled today. The first part of the analysis offers diagnostic...
This fascicle is the thirteenth in the series of Level One publications of the excavations at Franchthi Cave and is the third and final installment...
"With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." American Anthropologist
..". an exceptional contribution to the hitherto very inadequate knowledge of this period in Greece." Antiquity
..". the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Franchthi Cave are unique in providing a site-specific record of the cultural responses to great environmental changes." Quarterly Research
"Perles's study is impressive...
"With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites i...
