Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce) [The Chipped Stone Industries of Franchthi (Argolide, Greece)], Volume 1: Présentation générale et industries Paléolithiques, Fascicle 3 [General Presentation and Paleolithic Industries]
ISBN: 9780253044600
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press
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"With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." --American Anthropologist

" . . . an exceptional contribution to the hitherto very inadequate knowledge of this period in Greece." --Antiquity

" . . . the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Franchthi Cave are unique in providing a site-specific record of the cultural responses to great environmental changes." --Quarterly Research

"Perlès's study is impressive in the systematic application of a well-thought-out methodology." --American Antiquity

This study of chipped/flaked stone tools found in the excavations at Franchthi Cave is the first of its kind in Greek archaeology, if not in the whole of southeastern European prehistory.


Catherine Perlès is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nanterre and holds an honorary degree from Indiana University. She is author of several books, including The Early Neolithic in Greece and Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi: Volume 1, The Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic (IUP, 2018).

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