Douglass Bailey. Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity

Table of contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Fundamental changes in living

Explanation 

The organization and structure of the book 

1. Setting the scene: the Balkans before 6500 BC 

The early Balkans 

Spatial organization in the middle and upper Palaeolithic 

Expressions of identity in the Balkan late Pleistocene 

Where is the Mesolithic? 

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

2. Building social environments (6500—5500 BC) 

Building the social environment 

Northern Greece 

West- and south-central Bulgaria 

The Western Balkans and the lower Danube 

The Danube Gorges 

North-west Anatolia and Turkish Thrace 

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

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

Pottery 

Other forms of expressive material culture 

Non-representational, visually expressive material culture 

Chapter conclusions and summary 

4. Continuity or change? Burials, lithics, plants and animals (6500—5500 BC) 

Treatment of the deceased 

Flaked stone tools

Plants and animals

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

5. Continuities, expansion and acceleration of building and economy (5500—3600 BC)

The built environment 

Managing the living environment 

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

6. Burial and expressive material culture (5500—3600 BC) 

Mortuary practice 

Expressive material culture 

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

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

Settlement 

Burial 

Material culture 

Continuity in lithics and economy 

Chapter conclusions 

Summary 

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

The built environment 

The new materiality 

The arrangement of people and things 

Illusion within the post-6500 BC Balkans 

Conclusion: Why were things different after 6500 BC? 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index

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