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An essay on the ‘emergence of civilization’ in the Aegean world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tjeerd H. van Andel  and
Curtis N. Runnels
Tjeerd H. van Andel
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
Curtis N. Runnels
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 235 , June 1988 , pp. 234 - 247
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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