Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume is the third and final report on the chipped stone industries from the Neolithic site of Franchthi Cave in southern Greece. Catherine Perles presents a detailed analysis of this most important assemblage of material, examining aspects such as typology, debitage, retouch, exploitation of local and non-local sources, including obsidian from Melos, as well as synchronic and thematic approaches to the different phases of occupation at Franchthi, production techniques, choice of raw material, and the domestic versus specialist function of lithic types. French text.
Synopsis
With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." --American Anthropologist
... an exceptional contribution to the hitherto very inadequate knowledge of this period in Greece." --Antiquity
... the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Franchthi Cave are unique in providing a site-specific record of the cultural responses to great environmental changes." --Quarterly Research
Perl s's study is impressive in the systematic application of a well-thought-out methodology." -- w
This study of the thousands of chipped/flaked stone tools found in the excavations at Franchthi Cave is the first of its kind in Greek archaeology, if not in the whole of southeastern European prehistory.This is the third of three comprehensive reports on the flaked stone industries from the site, focusing on the Neolithic.
Catherine Perl s is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nanterre and holds an honorary degree from Indiana University. She is author of several books, including The Early Neolithic in Greece and Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi: Volume 1, The Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic (IUP, 2018)
Synopsis
This fascicle is the thirteenth in the series of Level One publications of the excavations at Franchthi Cave and is the third and final installment of the report on the site's chipped stone industries. The objective of Catherine Perl s's study is to make sense of the chronology of the site in its economic, technological, and typological dimensions. All phases of the Neolithic are represented at Franchthi Cave. Rich with more than 3,000 reconstructed pieces, this study offers a representative and technical typology that is unequaled today. The first part of the analysis offers diagnostic elements to facilitate comparisons between the lithic sequence and surface dating and is more descriptive than interpretive. The second part is dedicated to a step-by-step analysis of the Franchthi material in a well-defined chrono-stratigraphical framework. The third and most interpretive portion of the study addresses itself more specifically to those who are interested in the socio-economic organizational problems of Neolithic societies.
Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece--Thomas W. Jacobsen, editor, with Karen D. Vitelli