Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave In The Mani Greece Unknown by Unknown 9781785706493, 1785706497 instant download after payment.

Alepotrypa Cave at Diros Bay, Lakonia, Greece, is a massive karstic formation of consecutive chambers ending at a lake. The cave was excavated by G. Papathanassopoulos from 1970 to 2006. In conjunction with the surrounding area, it was used as a complementary habitation area, burial site, and place for ceremonial activity during the Neolithic c 6000 to 3200 BC. As a sealed, single-component, archaeological site, the Neolithic settlement complex of Alepotrypa Cave is one of the richest sites in Greece and Europe in terms of number of artifacts, preservation of biological materials, volume of undisturbed deposits, and horizontal exposure of archaeological surfaces of past human activity and this publication is an important contribution to ongoing archaeological research of the Neolithic Age in Greece in particular, but also in Anatolia, the Balkans and Europe in general. This edited volume offers a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the results of approximately 40 years of excavation and analysis. It includes numerous chemical analyses and a much needed long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools, faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific locations of human activities and ceremonies inside the cave, as well as a site description and the history of the excavation conducted by G. Papathanasopoulos
About the Author: Anastasia Papathanasiou is an archaeologist with the Greek Ministry of Culture in the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology. Her research interests focus on the areas of bioarchaeology, paleopathology, paleodiet, stables isotope analysis, mortuary practices, and prehistoric archaeology. She conducts physical anthropological and archaeological research in Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece.
About the Author: William A. Parkinson is Associate Curator of Eurasian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. His research interests focus on the evolution of agricultural villages in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age. He conducts collaborative archaeological research in Hungary on the Körös Regional Archaeological Project, and in Greece on The Diros Project.
About the Author: Daniel J. Pullen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Florida State University. His research interests are in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Aegean, particularly landscape archaeology, architecture, and ceramic analysis. He is co-director of the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project, where he is focusing on the fortified Mycenaean harbor site of Kalamianos.