The ancient Greek farmstead [electronic resource] / Maeve McHugh.

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Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McHugh, Maeve (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Agriculture, Ancient > Greece.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece.
Greece > Antiquities.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2017 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ancient farming and farmsteads: sources, problems, and debates
  • The archaeology of farmsteads and their agricultural role
  • The connected countryside: agricultural networks in the northeastern Peloponnese
  • Farming and the ancient agricultural economy
  • The ancient Greek farmstead.