The Neolithic Of Europe

Author : A. W. R. Whittle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521449200

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Europe in the Neolithic by A. W. R. Whittle Pdf

Dr. Whittle reviews the latest archaeological evidence on Neolithic Europe from 7000 to 2500 BC. Describing important areas, sites and problems, he addresses the major themes that have engaged the attention of scholars: the transition from a forager lifestyle; the rate and dynamics of change; and the nature of Neolithic society. He challenges conventional views, arguing that Neolithic society was rooted in the values and practices of its forager, predecessors right across the continent. The processes of settling down and adopting farming were piecemeal and slow. Only gradually did new attitudes emerge, to time and the past, to the sacred realms of ancestors and the dead, to nature and to the concept of community. Unique in its broad and up-to-date coverage of long-term processes of change on a continental scale, this completely rewritten and revised version of Whittle's Neolithic Europe: a survey reflects radical changes in the evidence and in interpretative approaches over the past decade.

Author : Chris Fowler,Jan Harding,Daniela Hofmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191666889

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The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe by Chris Fowler,Jan Harding,Daniela Hofmann Pdf

The Neolithic —a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe—has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which research is carried out, and the way research traditions in different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic —from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta —offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work in the field.

Author : Penny Bickle,Vicki Cummings,Daniela Hofmann,Joshua Pollard
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1785706543

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The Neolithic of Europe by Penny Bickle,Vicki Cummings,Daniela Hofmann,Joshua Pollard Pdf

The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from south-east Europe to Britain and Ireland and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with a decided focus on the former. Several papers discuss new scientific approaches to key questions in Neolithic research, while others offer interpretive accounts of aspects of the archaeological record. Thematically, the main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects of worldview. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact of techniques such as isotopic analysis and statistically modelled radiocarbon dates on our understanding of mobility, diet, lifestyles, events and historical processes. The volume is presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.

Author : Albert J. Ammerman,L L Cavalli-sforza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400853113

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The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe by Albert J. Ammerman,L L Cavalli-sforza Pdf

This book explores the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a way of life and the implications of this neolithic transition for the genetic structure of European populations. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Amy Bogaard
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415324858

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Neolithic Farming in Central Europe by Amy Bogaard Pdf

This book evaluates competing models of early crop husbandry in Central Europe using available archaeobotanical evidence.

Author : Julian Maxwell Heath
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473879874

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Warfare in Neolithic Europe by Julian Maxwell Heath Pdf

The Neolithic ('New Stone Age') marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that they had followed for many thousands of years, and instead, became farmers. The significance of this switch from a lifestyle that had been based on the hunting and gathering of wild food resources, to one that involved the growing of crops and raising livestock, cannot be underestimated. Although it was a complex process that varied from place to place, there can be little doubt that it was during the Neolithic that the foundations for the incredibly complex modern societies in which we live today were laid. However, we would be wrong to think that the first farming communities of Europe were in tune with nature and each other, as there is a considerable (and growing) body of archaeological data that is indicative of episodes of warfare between these communities. This evidence should not be taken as proof that warfare was endemic across Neolithic Europe, but it does strongly suggest that it was more common than some scholars have proposed.Furthermore, the words of the seventeenth-century English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, who famously described prehistoric life as 'nasty, brutish, and short', seem rather apt in light of some of the archaeological discoveries from the European Neolithic.

Author : Gordon Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107159839

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Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe by Gordon Noble Pdf

A detailed consideration of the ways in which human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic of northern Europe.

Author : Penny Bickle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782973287

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Creating Communities by Penny Bickle Pdf

The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which unite LBK studies in their different regional research contexts and paves the way for further debate on the subject.

Author : Timothy Darvill,Julian Thomas
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785701535

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Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond by Timothy Darvill,Julian Thomas Pdf

A digital reprint which makes available again the first publication of the Neolithic Studies Group, containing papers given to a special colloquium on the `structures' of Neolithic Europe. Contributions include: Neolithic houses in mainland Britain and Ireland - a skeptical view (Julian Thomas); Houses in context: Building as process (Alasdair Whitlle); A Central European Perspective (Jonathon Last); Neolithic houses in Ireland (Eoin Grogan); Neolithic buildings in Scotland (Gordon Barclay); Neolithic buildings in England, Wales and the Isle of Man (Tim Darvill); Mesolithic or later houses at Bowmans Farm, Romsey Extra, Hampshire (Francis Green); Ballygalley houses, co.Antrim (Derek Simpson); Later Neolthic Structires at Trelystan, Powys (Alex Gibson); Life, times and works of House 59, Tell Ovcharovo, Bulgaria (Douglass Bailey); Structure ans ritual in Neolithic houses (Peter Topping); Architecture and Cosmology in the Balinese house: life is not that simple (Colin Richards); Houses in the Neolithic imagination: an Amazonian Example (Christine Hugh-Jones).

Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461507512

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European Prehistory by Sarunas Milisauskas Pdf

Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire. In 1978, the Academic Press published my book European Prehistory which, typically for that period, emphasized cultural evolution, culture process, technology, environment, and economy. To produce a new version and an up- to-date prehistory of Europe, I have invited contributions from specialists in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Thus while this version of European Prehistory is a new book, however, it still incorporates some data from the 1978 version, particularly in The Present Environment and Neolithic chapters. Like its predecessor, this edition is structured around selected general topics, such as technology, trade, settlement, warfare, and ritual.

Author : Anne L. van Gijn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9073368111

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Ideology and Social Structure of Stone Age Communities in Europe by Anne L. van Gijn Pdf

Author : G. Varndell,Peter Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705236

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Enclosures in Neolithic Europe by G. Varndell,Peter Topping Pdf

These papers come from a conference on Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in Europe held in London in 1999. They present a series of snapshots of some of the sites and regions at the forefront of current research on causewayed enclosures in Europe, and as such are a complement to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) project which has systematically recorded all known Neolithic enclosures in England by both analytical topographic survey techniques and aerial transcription. The detailed regional data collected by the RCHME project has allowed a radical reinterpretation of these sites and the recognition that there are regional groups of enclosures. This series of papers serves to broaden the discussion about the structure and form of causewayed monuments beyond lowland England, looking at a wide geographical range of sites across central Europe, as well as considering some sites which do not conform to the traditional type but which have been proved by excavation to have a Neolithic context. This collection of papers provides a long-awaited and important addition to the debate on these enigmatic prehistoric sites. Contents: Neolithic Enclosures of Scandinavia (Niels H Anderson) ; The Causewayed Enclosures of West-Central France from the beginning of the Fourth to the End of the Third Millennium (Claude Burnez and Catherine Louboutin) ; Le Mourral, Trèbes (Aude) and the Final Neolithic Circular Enclosures of the Languedoc (Jean Vaquer) ; The Late Neolithic Settlement of La Hersonnais, Pléchatel in its Regional Context (Jean-Yves Tinevez) ; The Neolithic Ditched Enclosures of the Tavoliere, South-East Italy (Robin Skeates) ; An Interrupted Ditch Alignment at Rivoli, Italy, in the Context of Neolithic Interrupted Ditch/Pit Systems (Lawrence Barfield) ; Aerial Survey and Neolithic Enclosures in Central Europe (Otto Braasch) ; From Lilliput to Brobdingnag: The Traditions of Enclosure in the Irish Neolithic (Gabriel Cooney) ; Billown Neolithic Enclosures, Isle of Man (Timothy Darvill) ; Lithic Artefacts from Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures: Character and Meaning (Alan Saville) ; A Causewayed Enclosure at Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire (Adrian Butler, Patrick Clay and John Thomas) ; The Howe Robin Story: An Unusual Enclosure on Crosby Ravensworth Fell (Moraig Brown) ; The Seventieth Causewayed Enclosure in the British Isles? (Peter D Horne, David MacLeod and Alastair Oswald) ; Rethinking the Carrock Fell Enclosure (Trevor Pearson and Peter Topping) .

Author : A. W. R. Whittle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052128970X

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Neolithic Europe by A. W. R. Whittle Pdf

Neolithic Europe is a wide-ranging, thematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the period 8000-2000 BC. The last hunting and food collecting societies of Europe are discussed, but the book's main coverage is the Neolithic period, when agriculture was adopted as the dominant force in European society. Dr Whittle's treatment is systematic: covering Greece and the Balkans, the central and western Mediterranean, central and western Europe. Each chapter ,reviews the nature of the evidence, the environment, chronology and cultural sequences, settlements and the social control of production. Other aspects of social relations are discussed, including burial, ritual, the exchange and the uses of material culture. Major themes are the nature of the transition to agriculture and the subsequent development of social differentiation.

Author : Stephen Shennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108422925

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The First Farmers of Europe by Stephen Shennan Pdf

The book shows how the spread of farming across Europe was the result a population expansion from present-day Turkey.

Author : Dale Serjeantson,David Field
Publisher : Neolithic Studies Group Semina
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123283892

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Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe by Dale Serjeantson,David Field Pdf

Presenting 12 papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminar on the subject of animals in the Neolithic, this book aims to cover a range of approaches to animals in the Neolithic, discussing both wild and domestic animals and focuses on their social as well as economic roles.