The Iron Gates Mesolithic: 11 (Archaeological Series) - Softcover

Radovanovic, Ivana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187962124X ISBN 13: 9781879621244

Publisher: International Monographs in Prehistory, 1996

Synopsis

An extensive review of the Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania. The important sites of Lepenski Vir, Vlasac, Padina, and Hajducka Vodenica are among the many covered in this comprehensive work, which includes much previously unpublished data. The author offers fundamental re-analyses and interpretations of stratigraphies, relative and absolute chronologies, architecture and settlement organization, the placement and styles of altars and sculptural elements, the chipped and polished stone industries, the bone and antler artifacts, the mortuary practices, ecology, and social organization of this remarkable archaeological culture. In conclusion, all of these materials, analyses, and interpretations are placed both within their broader, European archaeological context, and in an explicit theoretical framework. An important and thought-provoking work.

About this title

About the Author:

Ivana Radovanovic is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Kansas, and holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Belgrade.

Synopsis:

This text presents a review and re-analysis of the Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Monographs in Prehistory
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 187962124X
• ISBN 13: 9781879621244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382