Based on a major research programme, and originally published in
1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for
reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east
Spain in terms of emergent social complexity. The cultural
evolution of the area had already been considered in terms of
influence from the eastern Mediterranean but this book uses site
catchment analysis to give an economic baseline for all thirty-five
of the better-known prehistoric settlements of the region. Site
catchment analysis assumes that people minimised transport costs in
production and that ancient and modern resource spaces correspond
systematically. This research therefore studied modern land use and
combined it with evidence from historical, archaeological and
geomorphological investigation. The book shows the increasing
social complexity evident in the archaeological record emerging as
a result of progressive intensification of agricultural technique.
Offering a complete coherent evolutionary model for the
archaeological sequence of the region's prehistory, this book is a
worthy in-depth study for prehistorians, geographers and anyone
interested in the history of the western Mediterranean.
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