Early Mediterranean Village - Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy

This book, first published in 2007, brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy.

List of contents

1. Theorizing Neolithic Italy; 2. Neolithic people; 3. The inhabited world; 4. Daily 'economy' and social reproduction; 5. Material culture and projects of the self; 6. Neolithic economy as social reproduction; 7. Neolithic Italy as an ethnographic landscape; 8. The great simplification: large-scale change at the end of the Neolithic.

About the author

John Robb has lectured on archaeological theory and the European Neolithic at Cambridge University since 2001. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork on Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Italy and has engaged in extensive research on prehistoric Italian skeletal remains. He edits the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Summary

What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC? In this book, first published in 2007, John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions. This book will appeal to graduates and professionals interested in European archaeology and prehistory.

Product details

• Authors: John Robb, John (University of Cambridge) Robb, Robb John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107661103
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66110-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Archaeology; Cambridge Studies in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Italy, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology