1988/06/01 by Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis Runnels · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Ancient Near East History #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Mesolithic #Civilization #Cave #History #Geography #Key (lock) #Sequence (biology) #Ancient history #Archaeology #Anthropology #Sociology #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00073968
openalex publication_date 1988/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/08
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model.