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The period from 6500 to 2500 BC was one of the most dynamic eras of
the prehistory of south-eastern Europe, for it saw many fundamental
changes in the ways in which people lived their lives. This
up-to-date and authoritative synthesis both describes the best
excavated relevant Balkan sites and interprets long-term trends in
the central themes of settlement, burial, material culture and
economy. Prominence is given to the ways people organized
themselves, the houses and landscapes where they lived and the
objects, plants and animals that they kept. The key developments
are seen as the creation of new social environments through the
construction of houses and villages, and a new materiality of life
which filled the built environment with a wide variety of objects.
Against the prevailing trends in European prehistory, the author
argues for a prehistoric past riven with tension and conflict,
where hoarding and exclusion of people was just as frequent as
sharing and helping. "Balkan Prehistory" provides a much-needed
guide to a period which has previously been inaccessible to western
scholars.;It should be a useful resource for undergraduates,
advanced students and scholars.
Douglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a
comprehensive synthesis, in English, of the archaeology of the
Balkans between 6,500 and 2,000 BC; much research on the prehistory
of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before
now, because of linguistic barriers.
Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the period,
which focus on the origins of agriculture and animal breeding. He
demonstrates that this was a period when monumental social and
material changes occurred in the lives of the people in this
region, with new technologies and ways of displaying
identity.
Balkan Prehistory will be required reading for everyone studying
the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.
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