The Early Mediterranean Village
The Early Mediterranean Village
Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy
What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC? In this book, John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions (Sicily and Malta). Exploring how the routines of daily life structured social relations and human experience during this period, Robb provides a detailed analysis of how people built houses, buried their dead, made and shared a distinctive cuisine, and made the pots and stone tools that archaeologists find.
- Systematic review of much Italian prehistory, including important recent work and much Italian language literature
- Interprets archaeology within broad theoretical background relevant to current debates in Anglo-American archaeological theory
- Discusses Neolithic people's lives in very broad ways, addressing as many different aspects of life as possible
Product details
April 2014Paperback
9781107661103
408 pages
229 × 152 × 23 mm
0.6kg
Available
Table 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.
