Hunter Gatherer Ireland

Author : Graeme Warren
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256840

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Hunter-Gatherer Ireland by Graeme Warren Pdf

Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and differences to its European neighbours - not least in terms of the terrestrial ecology created by its island status. To understand the communities of hunter-gatherers who lived there, it is essential that we consider the connections established between people and the other beings and materials with which they shared the world and through which they grew into it. Understanding the Mesolithic means paying attention to the animals, plants, spirits and things with which hunting and gathering groups formed kinship relationships and in collaboration with which they experienced life. The book closes with a reflection on hunting and gathering in Ireland today. The overriding aim of the book is to provide a point of entry into the lives of the Irish Mesolithic, to show the different ways in which people have lived on this island, and to show how we might narrate those lives.

Author : Graeme Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Hunting and gathering societies
ISBN : 1906304580

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Our Ancient Landscapes by Graeme Warren Pdf

Author : Bill Finlayson,Graeme M. Warren
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556041258203

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Changing Natures by Bill Finlayson,Graeme M. Warren Pdf

A new critical perspective on the dominant narratives of the 'Neolithic Revolution', with an emphasis on local histories and hunter-gatherer dynamics.

Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024878

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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers by Robert L. Kelly Pdf

Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.

Author : Vicki Cummings,Peter Jordan,Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191025273

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers by Vicki Cummings,Peter Jordan,Marek Zvelebil Pdf

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.

Author : H. L. Cobb
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062450138

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Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Identities by H. L. Cobb Pdf

This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theoretical approaches to the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers both in the Pleistocene and Holocene. Contents: 1) Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory (Fiona Coward & Lucy Grimshaw); 2) Upper Palaeolithic Social Colonisation and Lower Palaeolithic Biological Dispersal? A Consideration of the Nature of Movements into Europe During the Pleistocene (Lucy Grimshaw); 3) Transitions, Change and Prehistory: An Ecosystemic Approach to Change in the Archaeological Record (Fiona Coward); 4) Darwin Vs. Bourdieu - Celebrity Deathmatch or Postrocessual Myth? A Prolegomenon for the Reconciliation of Agentive-Interpretive and Ecological-Evolutionary Archaeology (Felix Riede); 5) We're Not Waiting Any More - Or, Hunting for Meaning in the Mesolithic of North-West Europe (Hannah Cobb & Steven Price); 6) Midden, Meaning, Person, Place: Interpreting the Mesolithic of Western Scotland (Hannah Cobb); 7) Reconstructing the Social Topography of an Irish Mesolithic Lakescape (Aim e Little); 8) Can't See the Trees for the Wood: The Social Life of Trees in the Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia.

Author : Tom Güldemann,Patrick McConvell,Richard A. Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107003682

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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers by Tom Güldemann,Patrick McConvell,Richard A. Rhodes Pdf

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059307

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Migration and the Making of Ireland by Bryan Fanning Pdf

Ireland has been shaped by centuries of emigration as millions escaped poverty, famine, religious persecution, and war. But what happens when we reconsider this well-worn history by exploring the ways Ireland has also been shaped by immigration? From slave markets in Viking Dublin to social media use by modern asylum seekers, Migration and the Making of Ireland identifies the political, religious, and cultural factors that have influenced immigration to Ireland over the span of four centuries. A senior scholar of migration and social policy, Bryan Fanning offers a rich understanding of the lived experiences of immigrants. Using firsthand accounts of those who navigate citizenship entitlements, gender rights, and religious and cultural differences in Ireland, Fanning reveals a key yet understudied aspect of Irish history. Engaging and eloquent, Migration and the Making of Ireland provides long overdue consideration to those who made new lives in Ireland even as they made Ireland new.

Author : Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521109574

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Hunters in Transition by Marek Zvelebil Pdf

Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming.

Author : Peter Woodman
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782977810

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Ireland's First Settlers by Peter Woodman Pdf

Ireland’s First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the context of the author’s 50 years of personal experience searching to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools. The story is embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonized. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available. The volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated. It asks what we really know about the thoughts and life of the people themselves and what happened to them as farming began to be introduced.

Author : Thomas Widlok,M. Dores Cruz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839460993

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Scale Matters by Thomas Widlok,M. Dores Cruz Pdf

Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution. With contributions by Nurit Bird-David, Robert L. Kelly, Charlotte Damm, Andreas Maier, Brian Codding, Elspeth Ready, Bram Tucker, Graeme Warren and others.

Author : Aitor Ruiz-Redondo,Professor of Palaeoanthropology William Davies,William Davies
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0197267505

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The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe by Aitor Ruiz-Redondo,Professor of Palaeoanthropology William Davies,William Davies Pdf

Situating the South-Eastern European region at the crossroads between the Near East and the rest of Europe, The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the Balkan record of prehistoric foragers in terms of dispersal, ecologies, evolution, and symbolism. The Balkans can increasingly be seen as a key crossroads region, connecting the Near East with the rest of Europe. Such movements of ancient human foragers were not always from east to west; eastward dispersals into the Near East also occurred. The Balkans also served as an interaction zone, where encounters between incoming and indigenous human groups led to the exchange of ideas and genes. Recently increased intensity of study in the region has led to the discovery of genetic evidence for interbreeding (Neanderthals and modern humans), as well as rock art and possible early seafaring evidence. Ruiz-Redondo and Davies set out new frameworks for future research. The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe is the first volume to evaluate the long hunter-gatherer prehistory of South-Eastern Europe, drawing together the latest evidence to restore this region to its full geographical and human evolutionary importance. This includes evidence of shifting raw material and subsistence economies, human remains and ancient DNA, and pre-Neolithic ceramics.

Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034273725

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The Foraging Spectrum by Robert L. Kelly Pdf

Because most of humanity's time as a species has been spent in a hunting-and-gathering subsistence mode, living hunter-gatherers have always played a pivotal role in interpretations of pre-history and anthropological theory. It is widely believed that "human nature" can be seen more clearly at this "stage" than at any other. Challenging this preconception, Robert L. Kelly crafts a new theoretical position by emphasizing the diversity among hunter-gatherer societies - a diversity that belies attempts to establish a single model of a predominant or "original" foraging lifeway. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for the differences among ethnographically known hunter-gatherers. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behavior, The Foraging Spectrum argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory. Written for archaeologists and ethnologists outside the field of hunter-gatherer research, it stresses explaining, rather than explaining away, variability.

Author : Peter Coxon,Stephen McCarron,Fraser Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789462392199

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Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies by Peter Coxon,Stephen McCarron,Fraser Mitchell Pdf

This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland. It reviews a number of significant advances in the last three decades on the understanding of the pattern and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and occupation records. Those utilising the latest technology have enabled significant advances in geochronology using accelerated mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically stimulated luminescence amongst others. This has been commensurate with high-resolution geomorphological mapping of the Irish land surface and continental shelf using a wide range of remote sensing techniques including MBES and LIDAR. Thus the time is ideal for a state of the art publication, which provides a series of authoritative reviews of the Irish Quaternary incorporating these most recent advances.

Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317514268

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The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland by Vicki Cummings Pdf

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to the early Beaker period. Drawing on new excavations and the application of new scientific approaches to data from this period, this book considers both life and death in the Neolithic. It offers a clear and concise introduction to this period but with an emphasis on the wider and on-going research questions. It is an important text for students new to the study of this period of prehistory as well as acting as a reference for students and scholars already researching this area. The book begins by considering the Mesolithic prelude, specifically the millennium prior to the start of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland. It then goes on to consider what life was like for people at the time, alongside the monumental record and how people treated the dead. This is presented chronologically, with separate chapters on the early Neolithic, middle Neolithic, late Neolithic and early Beaker periods. Finally it considers future research priorities for the study of the Neolithic.