Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Fra – Volume 2, The Neolithic

The famous Franchthi Cave excavations in Greece brought to light an exceptionally long sequence of ornaments, spanning from the earliest Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Neolithic. This volume focuses on the Neolithic, whose assemblages are far more diversified than those of earlier times. The introduction during the Neolithic of entirely artificial shapes, geometric and anthropomorphic, creates a marked departure from earlier periods and shows new directions in creativity by the bead makers. It also denotes a conceptual break in the treatment of shell, no longer solely a natural element barely modified by perforation, but now also a raw material rendered anonymous by workmanship. Due to the systematic sieving of the sediments and its location by the sea, the Franchthi cave and its outdoor settlement, the Paralia, yielded one of the richest collection of ornaments for Neolithic Greece.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2023
Authors:	Catherine Perlès • Sandrine Bonnardin • Benoît Mille • Patrick Pion
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Pages:	452
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-06775-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-253-06775-8
Barcode:	9780253067753

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