Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece, Hardcover

The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Evita Kalogiropoulou is a Adjunct Lecturer of archaeology at the School of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, at the University of Volos, Greece. She is an archaeologist specialised in the architectural features involved with cooking practices, spatial analysis and settlement studies in the Greek Neolithic. She did her BA and MA degree at the University of Crete in Greece and she completed her doctoral diploma at Cardiff University in U.K. She is the author of several papers, and she is involved in various international projects in Greece as an expert at the study of cooking facilities, and the social interfaces developed around cooking practices.