TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Though the ancient Greeks are generally thought to have been city dwellers, with a primarily urban culture, the polis also included a sizable agricultural territory where farmers worked and lived to produce the means of subsistence for the urban population, as well as a surplus for trade. Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archaeological explorations of these "other Greeks."" "This book stems from a Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture delivered at the University of Michigan in 2000 and is a synthesis of the methods and results of the investigation of the chora of Metapontum carried out by the University of Texas, in collaboration with Italian authorities, over the last twenty-five years. The fieldwork was designed to address fundamental questions about all citizens of the polis, including the ethnic composition of the colonists and their relationship with indigenous populations; land allocation and use; economic changes over time; growth and shrinkage of the population; modes and places of worship; funeral rites; and correlations between rural and urban life."--Jacket.
AU  - Carter, Joseph Coleman.
CN  - DG70.M52
CN  - DG70.M52
CY  - Ann Arbor :
DA  - ©2006.
ID  - 1381201
KW  - Greeks
KW  - Agricultural colonies
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - 15.34 classical archaeology.
KW  - Agricultural colonies.
KW  - Antiquities.
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Greeks.
KW  - Landbau
KW  - Siedlungsarchäologie
KW  - Koloniën.
KW  - Acculturatie.
KW  - Dagelijks leven.
KW  - Survey-onderzoek.
KW  - Griekse oudheid.
KW  - Funde
N2  - "Though the ancient Greeks are generally thought to have been city dwellers, with a primarily urban culture, the polis also included a sizable agricultural territory where farmers worked and lived to produce the means of subsistence for the urban population, as well as a surplus for trade. Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archaeological explorations of these "other Greeks."" "This book stems from a Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture delivered at the University of Michigan in 2000 and is a synthesis of the methods and results of the investigation of the chora of Metapontum carried out by the University of Texas, in collaboration with Italian authorities, over the last twenty-five years. The fieldwork was designed to address fundamental questions about all citizens of the polis, including the ethnic composition of the colonists and their relationship with indigenous populations; land allocation and use; economic changes over time; growth and shrinkage of the population; modes and places of worship; funeral rites; and correlations between rural and urban life."--Jacket.
PB  - University of Michigan,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©2006.
SN  - 0472114778
SN  - 9780472114771
T1  - Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto /
TI  - Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto /
VL  - twenty-third ser.
ER  -