Something Out of the Ordinary? Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Something Out of the Ordinary? Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond write by Luc Amkreutz. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Something Out of the Ordinary? Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 7000 years ago, groups of early farmers (the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK) spread over vast areas of Europe. Their cultural characteristics comprised common choices and styles of execution, with a central meaning and functionality attached to ‘doing things a certain way’, over an enormous geographical area. However, recent evidence suggests that the reality was much more varied and diverse. The central question of this book is the extent to which notions of ‘uniformity’ and ‘diversity’ have caused a wider shift in archaeological perspective. Using the LBK case study as a starting point, the volume brings together contributions by international specialists tackling the notion of cultural diversity and its explanatory power in archaeological analysis more generally. Through discussions of the domestic architecture, stone tool inventory, pottery traditions, landscape use and burial traditions of the LBK, this book provides a crucial reappraisal of the culture’s potential for adaptability and change. Papers in the second part of the volume are devoted to archaeological case studies from around the globe in which the tension between diversity and uniformity has also proved controversial, including the Near Eastern Halaf culture, the North American Mississippian, the Pacific expansion of the Lapita culture, and the European Bell Beaker phenomenon. All provide exciting theoretical and methodological contributions on how the appreciation of cultural diversity as a whole can be moved forward. These papers expose diversity and uniformity as cultural strategies, and as such provide essential reading for scholars in archaeology and anthropology, and for anyone interested in the interplay between material culture and human social change.
Use of Space and Domestic Areas: Functional Organisation and Social Strategies
Use of Space and Domestic Areas: Functional Organisation and Social Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Use of Space and Domestic Areas: Functional Organisation and Social Strategies write by Luc Jallot. This book was released on 2021-12-16. Use of Space and Domestic Areas: Functional Organisation and Social Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The organization of inhabited space is the direct expression of the deep integration of societies with their cultural and natural environment. Contributions in this volume show the progress of research in terms of understanding the use of space on different scales, from the household to the village, focusing on Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts.
Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech
Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech write by Dagmara H. Werra. This book was released on 2018-02-28. Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of forty-six papers papers in honour of Professor Jacek Lech, compiled in recognition of his research and academic career as well as his inquiry into the study of prehistoric flint mining, Neolithic flint tools (and beyond), and the history of archaeology.
The Neolithic of Europe
The Neolithic of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neolithic of Europe write by Penny Bickle. This book was released on 2017-05-31. The Neolithic of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from southeast 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 world view. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact of techniques such as isotopic analysis and statistically modeled 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.
Balkan Dialogues
Balkan Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balkan Dialogues write by Maja Gori. This book was released on 2017-02-17. Balkan Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated with past social or ethnic groups. This timely volume fulfils the need for an up-to-date and theoretically informed dialogue on group identity in Balkan prehistory. Thirteen case studies covering the beginning of the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by ethnologists with a research focus on material culture and identity, provide a robust foundation for exploring these issues. Bringing together the latest research, with a particular intentional focus on the central and western Balkans, this collection offers original perspectives on Balkan prehistory with relevance to the neighbouring regions of Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Anatolia. Balkan Dialogues challenges long-established interpretations in the field and provides a new, contextualised reading of the archaeological record of this region.
