Talalay reports on the most important collection of figurines (24 figurines and 21 fragments) in southern Greece, recovered during excavations at Franchthi Cave and at the nearby open-air settlement along the present shoreline. She also reexamines the theoretical and methodological foundations of scholarship in the field of figurine studies. Of particular concern is a critical evaluation of the uses of evidence in addressing gender issues.Lauren E. Talalay is Research Associate and Curator Emerita, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan. She is the coauthor of In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (2006).

Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines From Franchthi Cave, Greece, Fascicle 9, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece

Arts & Photography

Talalay, Lauren E.

Sculpture

Indiana University Press

The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterised the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork. Table of Contents 1. Introduction, 2. Landscape and Environment, 3. Investigations at Plakari, 4. The Survey, 5. Ceramic and Lithic Industries: Synthesis and Interconnections, 6. The Paximadi Peninsula in Broader Perspective, Appendix: Gazetteer of Prehistoric Sites and Findspots, References, Index, Figures, Plates

The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula (Prehistory Monographs)

History

Cullen, Tracey

Keller, Donald R.

Karimali, Lia

Ferrand, William. R.

Ancient Civilizations

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)

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