EARLY MEDITERRANEAN VILLAGE: AGENCY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NEOLITHIC ITALY

"What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 B.C.? This book brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions (Sicily and Malta). Exploring how the routines of daily life structured social relations and human experience during this period, it provides a detailed analysis of how people built houses, buried their dead, made and shared a distinctive cuisine, and made the pots and stone tools that archaeologists find. This book also addresses questions of regional variation and long-term change, showing how the sweeping changes at the end of the Neolithic were rooted in and transformed the daily practices of earlier periods. It also links the agency of daily life, and the reproduction of social relations, with long-term patterns in European prehistory."--Jacket.