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Earliest Italy

An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic

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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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A synthesis of Italian prehistory spanning more than 600,000 years beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climate change, and environmental adaptation and exploitation and includes detailed descriptions of the most important sites and a comprehensive list of bibliographic references to original sources.

Reviews

Prepublication praise:
"This comprehensive volume on Italian prehistory provides a wealth of information that will improve readers' access to the archaeological and faunal records which have been gathered by several generations of Italian researchers and will undoubtedly serve many scholars and students who are either not at all or only partially familiar with Italian prehistory. The author produces a most interesting picture of Paleolithic Italy."
(Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University)
"A must for college and university programs offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the Paleolithic[...]"
(Choice, 39:9, 2002)
"Magnifico! Bravissimo! Margherita Mussi has done the virtually "impossible" and done it very well (and in a language that is not her native tongue): a book that thoroughly, intelligently synthesizes the Pleistocene prehistory of Italy.[...] This is a landmark book.[...] If you read one work on the Italian Paleolithic, Mussi's magnus opus is it."
(Journal of Anthropological Research, 58, 2002)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Margherita Mussi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Earliest Italy

  • Book Subtitle: An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic

  • Authors: Margherita Mussi

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b110672

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46463-8Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7498-6Published: 18 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47195-7Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 402

  • Topics: Archaeology, History, general, Anthropology

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