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Author: Robin Dennell
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Shortened and substantially rewritten version of [the author's] Ph.D. dissertation."
Author: Robin Dennell
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Shortened and substantially rewritten version of [the author's] Ph.D. dissertation."
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-07-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521269698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to reconstruct the lives of prehistoric farmers in remarkable detail. Not only do we now have a vivid picture of the prehistoric farmyard, but we know what animals were kept, how they were fed and why they were bred. Evidence for crops grown and techniques of cultivation and husbandry helps recreate the prehistoric landscape. Even the social organisation that determined the use of resources, and provided the crucial stimulus for agricultural change, can be relived. Graeme Barker develops his argument through analogies with the agricultural history of classical and medieval Europe and concludes that today's industrial farmers can learn much from the successes and failures of early European farming.
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 0199559953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.
Author: Albert J. Ammerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1400853117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: A. W. R. Whittle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-05-23
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521449205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. 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: Khenrieta Todorova
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Eneolithic period in Bulgaria, which covers the 5th millennium B. C., is a remarkable span of time in her prehistory. For a very long time the idea of a rudimentary, primitive mode of life and culture of the population which inhabited the Bulgarian lands in that very distant epoch largely dominated the public mind.
Author: Balthasar Bickel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9027270805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these issues from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, utilizing cutting-edge typological methodology. The phenomena considered range from the phonological to the morphosyntactic, the areal coverage ranges in scale from micro-areal to worldwide, and the types of historical contingency range from contact-based to genealogical in nature. Together, the papers argue strongly for a view in which, although they use distinct methodologies, linguistic typology and historical linguistics are one and the same enterprise directed at discovering how languages came to be the way they are and how linguistic types came to be distributed geographically as they are.
Author: Martin Biddle
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-03-24
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1803270675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging study describes the natural environment of Winchester and its immediate surroundings from the late Iron Age to the early post-medieval period. Historical and archaeological evidence consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultural, gardening and horticultural regimes over a millennium and a half.
Author: Alasdair Whittle
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2008-03-15
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1782974814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic. Each paper makes a significant contribution to existing knowledge about the period, and the book, like its companion (Un)settling the Neolithic (Oxbow 2005) will be a benchmark text for work in this region. The reports in Living Well Together? play out the critical questions posed in the earlier volume: how should one interpret settlement; what of the difference between tells and flat sites; what do we mean by permanent occupation; can we avoid the assumptions that underlie claims for year-round residence or seasonal occupation; why, in some regions and at some times, did people maintain residence for so many generations that monumental tell settlements grew to dominate the visual and social landscape; what would a viewshed analysis of tells reveal; what are the dynamics of households in Neolithic Greece; how should we see the emergence of pottery in terms of material culture; and what were the origins of the LBK, and how can we understand its development? The volume's authors have succeeded in attacking existing thought, in provoking new discussion and in creating new paths to understanding the nature of human existence in the Neolithic. Together they set a new agenda for studying the Neolithic across and beyond southeastern and central Europe.
