Beyond the Acropolis

Beyond the Acropolis
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780804766777
ISBN-13 : 0804766770
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Acropolis by : Tjeerd van Andel

Download or read book Beyond the Acropolis written by Tjeerd van Andel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use.


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