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Beyond the Acropolis : a rural Greek past / Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis Runnels.

By: Van Andel, Tjeerd H. (Tjeerd Hendrik), 1923-2010Contributor(s): Runnels, Curtis Neil, 1950-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1987. Description: xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0804726213; 0804713898 (alk. paper) :Subject(s): Greece -- Rural conditions | Greece -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 949.5 LOC classification: DF109 | .V36 1987
Contents:
Bright dots on a shadowed landscape -- A Greek countryside -- Walking in the fields: archaeology without digging -- Hunting the wild ass: earliest man in the southern argolid -- An outpost of the agriculture revolution -- Civilization coming -- At the edge of a greater world -- Byzantine chapels to beach hotels -- Learning to take care of the soil -- Growth and decline: a history of people -- What next?
Summary: Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use"--Back cover.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [189]-212.

Bright dots on a shadowed landscape -- A Greek countryside -- Walking in the fields: archaeology without digging -- Hunting the wild ass: earliest man in the southern argolid -- An outpost of the agriculture revolution -- Civilization coming -- At the edge of a greater world -- Byzantine chapels to beach hotels -- Learning to take care of the soil -- Growth and decline: a history of people -- What next?

Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use"--Back cover.