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Title From surface collection to prehistoric lifeways : making sense of the multi-period site of Orlovo, south east Bulgaria / edited by John Chapman ; with contributions by Bisserka Gaydarska [and others]
Published Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 172 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Contents Introduction: from surface collection to past lifeways / John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska -- The site of Orlovo in its local and regional context / John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarka, and Ruslan Kostov -- The fired clay figurines / Bisserka Gaydarska and Ana Raduntcheva -- The ornaments / John Chapman and Ruslan Kostov -- The polished stone tools / Bisserka Gaydarska and Ruslan Kostov -- Interpreting the site and the objects / John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska, and Ana Raduntcheva -- Conclusions / John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska -- Appendix 1: catalogue of finds / Bisserka Gaydarska -- Appendix 2: other finds / Ana Raduntcheva and John Chapman
Summary The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left enduring marks on today's landscapes. One of the key trends in these millennia concerned the high value attributed to the exotic, especially if that was represented by objects of striking colour and brilliance. Thus, the
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Subject Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region
Material culture -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region -- History -- To 1500
Prehistoric peoples -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region -- Social life and customs
Community life -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region -- History -- To 1500
Social archaeology -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region
Neolithic period -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region
Copper age -- Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Antiquities
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Community life
Copper age
Material culture
Neolithic period
Social archaeology
SUBJECT Orlovo Site (Bulgaria) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010007572
Khaskovo Region (Bulgaria) -- Antiquities
Khaskovo Region (Bulgaria) -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Subject Bulgaria -- Khaskovo Region
Bulgaria -- Orlovo Site
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chapman, John, 1951- editor.
Gaydarska, Bisserka, contributor.
LC no. 2010018124
ISBN 1842177761
9781842177761