The Neolithic of Southeast Europe

Recent Trends

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ID7635250
AuthorsJohn Chapman (0009-0002-9645-5634, Brandon, Durham DH7 8QN, United Kingdom), Stella Souvatzi (0000-0002-3645-9732, Athens 135 61, Greece)
Year2020
Volume49
Issue1
Pages123-140
Publication date2020-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-120219-014908
OpenAlexW3042834186
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited57

The prehistory of the Aegean, Balkans, and Carpathian Basin has changed dramatically in the last two decades. This review covers five aspects of these changes: ( a) the development of theoretical approaches, in which diversification from cultural archaeology has seen the spread of processual, postprocessual and later approaches; ( b) the acquisition of data, with the key major development being the proliferation of large-scale infrastructure projects; ( c) the synthesis of data, the most significant challenge being to make sense of the massive increase in paleo-environmental research, materials science, regional surveys, and site monographs; ( d) thematic questions, whose very diversity underscores the discipline's growth in these regions; and ( e) emergent trends, such as the creation of new forms of synthesis at the local, regional, and interregional scales, the theorizing and differentiation of new ways of relating people, places, plants, and animals and objects, and continuing diversification in the application of scientific techniques

Archaeology · Cartography · Diversification (marketing strategy · Diversity (politics · Economic geography · Geography · Prehistory · Regional science · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Thematic map · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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