Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation

Douglass Baileys 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.

List of illustrations

x

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgements

xv

Introduction: Balkan prehistory (6500-2500 BC): fundamental changes in human behaviour

1

(5)

Fundamental changes in living

6

(4)

Explanation

10

(1)

The organization and structure of the book

11

(4)

Setting the scene: the Balkans before 6500 BC

15

(24)

The early Balkans

15

(8)

Spatial organization in the middle and upper Palaeolithic

23

(3)

Expressions of identity in the Balkan late Pleistocene

26

(6)

Where is the Mesolithic?

32

(4)

Chapter conclusions

36

(1)

Summary

37

(2)

Building social environments (6500-5500 BC)

39

(37)

Building the social environment

39

(3)

Northern Greece

42

(6)

West- and south-central Bulgaria

48

(4)

The Western Balkans and the lower Danube

52

(10)

The Danube Gorges

62

(9)

North-west Anatolia and Turkish Thrace

71

(3)

Chapter conclusions

74

(1)

Summary

75

(1)

New dimensions of material culture: pottery containers and other forms of expression (6500-5500 BC)

76

(40)

Pottery

76

(18)

Other forms of expressive material culture

94

(13)

Non-representational, visually expressive material culture

107

(6)

Chapter conclusions and summary

113

(3)

Continuity or change? Burials, lithics, plants and animals (6500-5500 BC)

116

(37)

Treatment of the deceased

116

(8)

Flaked stone tools

124

(7)

Plants and animals

131

(20)

Chapter conclusions

151

(1)

Summary

152

(1)

Continuities, expansion and acceleration of building and economy (5500-3600 BC)

153

(40)

The built environment

153

(24)

Managing the living environment

177

(13)

Chapter conclusions

190

(1)

Summary

191

(2)

Burial and expressive material culture (5500-3600 BC)

193

(47)

Mortuary practice

193

(16)

Expressive material culture

209

(27)

Chapter conclusions

236

(3)

Summary

239

(1)

Transitions to new ways of living: the Balkans after 4000 BC

240

(23)

Settlement

240

(5)

Burial

245

(5)

Material culture

250

(5)

Continuity in lithics and economy

255

(4)

Chapter conclusions

259

(2)

Summary

261

(2)

The Balkans (6500-2500 BC): exclusion, incorporation and projection

263

(25)

The built environment

263

(7)

The new materiality

270

(2)

The arrangement of people and things

272

(11)

Illusion within the post-6500 BC Balkans

283

(3)

Conclusion: Why were things different after 6500 BC?

286

(2)

Notes

288

(4)

Bibliography

292

(47)

Index

339

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