Balkan Prehistory

<p>Douglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis in English of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6500 and 2000 BC; much research on the prehistory of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before now because of linguistic barriers.<br> Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the period which focus on the origins of agriculture and animal breeding. He demonstrates that this was a period when monumental social and material changes occurred in the lives of the people in this region with new technologies and ways of displaying identity.<br><em>Balkan Prehistory</em> will be required reading for everyone studying the Neolithic Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.</p>