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Late Bronze Age Social Landscapes of the Southeast Balkans: A spatial analysis of local ceramics and site distribution
Denitsa Nenova
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The book explores settlement and burial patterns across the southeastern corner of the Balkan Peninsula during the second millennium BC and offers a new, detailed cross-border examination of the local pottery data. The volume offers a comprehensive analysis based on the existing cultural-historical framework and calls into question established constructs such as the 'Plovdiv-Zimnicea' culture. The work offers a chronologically structured analysis of pottery sequences and is methodologically innovative in the way it applies a rare combination of settlement-scale analysis using advanced spatial-statistical methods alongside artefact-scale typological and stylistic study on local ceramics also subjected to spatial-statistical mapping. As a result, the research highlights clusters of attributes and cycles of micro-regional interaction. On that basis it also addresses the formation, development and decline of the Late Bronze Age tradition(s) in Thrace and examines the degree to which this trajectory was influenced by wider patterns of regional development.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of figures
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List of tables
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List of plates
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Abstract
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1. Introduction and background
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2. Change and identity: a theoretical perspective
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3. Data and method
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4. Archaeological overview and prior research
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5. Site characterisation and issues of preservation
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6. Quantifying site distributions
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7. Characteristics and classification of the local LBA pottery
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8. Spatial analysis of ceramic distributions
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9. Regional patterning and a revised chronology
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10. People and places in LBA Thrace
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Appendix I. Plates
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Published: 2019
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407316819 (paperback)
- 9781407355573 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2936