| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks in archaeology |
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Oxford handbooks in archaeology
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| Contents |
Mobility, change, and interaction at the large scale -- Environments and landscape change / Tony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore -- Movements of plants, animals, ideas, and people in South-East Europe / Johannes Müller -- The neolithization of Mediterranean Europe : mobility and interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula / Jean Guilaine -- Central and Western Europe / Wolfram Schier -- Moving animals and plants in the early Neolithic of North-Western Europe / Anne Tresset -- Language, genes, and cultural interaction / Stephen Shennan -- The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic / John Chapman -- The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe / Caroline Malone -- Early Neolithic manifestations in Central and Eastern Europe / Detlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov -- The Atlantic Mesolithic-Neolithic transition / Nick Thorpe -- Neolithic worlds and Neolithic lifeways -- Settlements in South-East Europe / Pál Raczky -- Domestic space in the Mediterranean / Demetra Papaconstantinou -- Longhouse lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic / Jonathan Last -- Lakeside dwellings in the Circum alpine region / Francesco Menotti -- The Bandkeramik longhouses : a material, social, and mental metaphor for small-scale sedentary societies / Anick Coudart -- Houses, halls, and occupation in Britain and Ireland / Kenneth Brophy -- Places of settlement in southern Scandinavia / Mats Larsson -- Stable isotopes and Neolithic subsistence : pattern and variation / Rick Schulting -- Subsistence practices and social routine in Neolithic Southern Europe / Amy Bogaard and Paul Halstead -- Subsistence practices in Central and Eastern Europe / László Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lille -- Subsistence practices in Western and Northern Europe / Peter Rowley-Conwy and Tony Legge -- The Neolithic year / Dimitrij Mlekuž -- Religious routine and pilgrimage in the British Isles / Roy Loveday -- Invention and European knapping traditions / Marjorie de Grooth -- Shared labour and large-scale action : European flint mining / Marta Capote and Pedro Díaz-del-Río -- Stone and flint axes in Neolithic Europe / Gabriel Cooney -- Pots and potters in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in South-East Europe / Mihael Budja -- Linearbandkeramik pottery and society / Joachim Pechtl -- Ceramics and society in Northern Europe / Johannes Müller and Rick Peterson -- Bell beaker pottery and society / Marc Vander Linden -- A miniature world : models and figurines in South-East Europe / Stratos Nanoglou -- Spondylus gaederopus/Glycymeris exchange networks in the European Neolithic and Chalcothic / John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska -- Amber / Tony Axelsson, Morten Ramstad, and Anders Strinnholm -- The first metalwork and expressions of social power / Volker Heyd and Katharine Walker -- Early metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean / Martin Bartelheim and Mark Pearce -- Early metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe / Benjamin W. Roberts and Catherine J. Frieman -- Deposition in pits / Duncan Garrow -- Animals and social relations / Arkadiusz Marciniak and Joshua Pollard -- Monuments, rock art, and cosmology -- Central European enclosures / Jörg Petrasch -- Italian enclosures / Robin Skeates -- Causewayed enclosures in Northern and Western Europe / Niels H. Andersen -- Chambered tombs and passage graves of Western and Northern Europe / Vicki Cummings, Magdalena S. Midgley, and Chris Scarre -- Neolithic rock art in Iberia / Sara Fairén-Jiménez -- The rock art tradition of Valcamonica-Valtellina during the Neolithic period / Angelo Eugenio Fossati -- Rock art and the rock surface : Neolithic rock art traditions of Britain, Ireland, and northernmost Europe / Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones, and Kalle Sogness -- Underground religion in the central Mediterranean Neolithic / Robin Skeates -- A place in the cosmos : celestial bodies and the passage graves of Western Europe / Michael Hoskin -- Death, bodies, and persons -- Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in the Neolithic and early-middle Copper Age of South-East Europe / Dušan Borić -- Burial and human body representations in the Mediterranean Neolithic / John Robb -- Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in Central Europe / Daniela Hoffman and Jörg Orschiedt -- Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in Northern Europe / Karl-Göran Sjögren -- Mortuary practices and bodily representations in North-West Europe / Chris Fowler and Chris Scarre -- Debates in Neolithic archaeology -- Unexpected histories? : South-East and Central Europe / Alasdair Whittle -- Commentary : what do we mean by "Neolithic societies?" / Julian Thomas -- The decline of the Neolithic and the rise of Bronze Age society / Kristian Kristiansen |
| Summary |
'The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe' provides a 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 9, 2015) |
| Subject |
Neolithic period -- Europe.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Europe
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Antiquities
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Neolithic period
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Prehistoric peoples
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Neolitisk tid.
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Arkeologi.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fowler, Chris, 1973- editor.
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Harding, Jan, 1966- editor.
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Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191750113 |
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0191750115 |
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9780191666896 |
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0191666890 |
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9780191666889 |
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0191666882 |
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