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11%OFFAnna Stroulia - Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece - 9780253221780 - V9780253221780
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Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece

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Description for Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece Paperback. Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. This title provides an analysis of the material discovered during the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. Series: Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece. Num Pages: 242 pages, 30 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 277 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 704.

Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed analysis of the material discovered during the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. Approximately 500 tools, the raw material used for their manufacture, as well as the byproducts of such manufacture were found. Most of this collection comes from the Neolithic component of the site—including a small number of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cases—with a large number of the studied tools indicating multiple ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221780
SKU
V9780253221780
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About Anna Stroulia
Anna Stroulia is an archaeologist and social anthropologist who teaches at the University of Southern Indiana. She is author (with Susan Buck Sutton) of the forthcoming Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology and Communities in Greece.

Reviews for Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
[This series makes] an exceptional contribution to the hitherto very inadequate knowledge of this period in Greece.
Antiquity

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