[...] The Academy of Athens, showing great sensibility to our proposal, has kindly sponsored the publication of the Corpus. These circumstances made possible the composition of this volume, which presents 362 Neolithic figurines fron Eastern and Western Thessaly, the cradle of Neolithic civilization in Greece on account of its georgaphical location, natural enviroment and resources. [...]
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