Ancient Greece - Social Structure and Evolution

This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

List of contents

1. My analytical frame; 2. The Ancient Greek landscape; 3. The Neolithic in Greece; 4. Developments c.3200-2200 BCE; 5. The beginning of change and the evolution of a Koine; 6. Changes in the latter part of the second millennium BCE; 7. The eleventh to eighth centuries: from collapse to created chaos; 8. A brave new world: the new structure and characteristics of its emergence; 9. Developments after the rise of Macedon; 10. The Cretan difference; 11. The sweep of things: the larger picture of the evolution of Ancient Greece; 12. Greece is not alone: the small polity evolutionary characteristics of the ancient Greeks and other past cultures.

About the author

David B. Small is Professor of Archaeology at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. A Fulbright fellow, he has conducted research in Greece, Italy, Israel, Honduras, and the United States.

Product details

• Authors: David B Small, David B. Small, David B. (Lehigh University Small, Small David B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780521719261
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71926-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Case Studies in Early Societies; Case Studies in Early Societie; Case Studies in Early Societie; Case Studies in Early Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Klassik, Antike, Geschichte der Architektur, Archäologie einer Periode / Region, Landschaftsarchitektur und -gestaltung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Altes Griechenland, Landscape art & architecture, Ancient Greece, Prähistorische Kunst, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, History of Architecture, Ancient History, History of art: pre-history, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Landscape architecture and design, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Prehistoric styles