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1 online resource (464 pages) |
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Introducing the research questions -- The study region -- The palaeo-environment -- Temporality -- The cultural framework -- Research in social archaeologies -- Research questions -- Book contents -- Chapter 2 -- Framing the enquiry -- Introduction: living within the rules -- Questions of scale -- Basic terms -- Relations -- Settlements and the mortuary domain -- The proliferation of objects -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 3 -- Foodways -- foraging and agro-pastoral practices -- Introduction |
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Stage 1: catching and collecting, growing and tending -- Stage 2: food allocation and storage -- Stages 3-4: cooking and eating -- Stage 5 -- Chapter Summary -- Persons -- Introducing some special persons -- Life courses -- The life course in death: mortuary costumes and personhood -- Personal skills -- Personhood and the production of images -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 5 -- Houses and households -- Introduction: building an experimental 'Neolithic' house -- Definitions and general issues -- Building forager houses in Phases 1 (7000-6300 BC) and 2 (6300-5300 BC) -- Phase 2 houses |
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Phase 3 houses -- Phase 4 houses -- Phase 5 houses -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 6 -- Settlement planning -- Introduction -- Settlement form -- A diversity of site types -- Planning at forager settlements? -- Phase 2 settlements -- Phase 3 -- the spread of settlement planning -- Phase 4 planning -- the displacement of concentricity -- Phase 5 -- the triumph of concentricity in Eastern Europe -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 7 -- The mortuary zone -- Introduction -- The absent, the bone, the body and the cemetery -- Cemeteries in Old Europe |
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Chapter 10 -- Change and continuity -- Introduction -- The emergence of farming: a network model -- The onset of copper and gold metallurgy -- The emergence of urbanism in the Ukrainian forest-steppe -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 11 -- Summary and conclusions -- Summarising without writing a Grand Narrative -- Research question (1): how to form relations -- Research Questions (2 and 3): material culture and the settlement domain -- In conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices -- General index -- Index of people -- Index of places -- Blank Page -- Blank Page |
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Of Chapters 6 and 7: the mortuary and domestic domains -- Chapter 8 -- Long-term settlement dynamics -- Introduction -- Settlement patterns by modern state -- Bulgaria -- The lands of 'former Yugoslavia' (Serbia, Republic of North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosova and Bosnia - Hercegovina) -- Settlement in Hungary -- Settlement in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 9 -- Networks -- Introduction: an exotic pumice-stone -- Settlement networks -- Phase 1 networks -- Phase 2 networks -- Phase 3 networks -- Phase 4 networks -- Phase 5 networks -- Chapter summary |
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Balkan prehistory conjures up images of the Exotic and the Other in comparison with the better-known prehistory of Western Europe - often written in unfamiliar languages about lesser known places. Combined with the information revolution in archaeology, these factors have meant that no new synthesis of Old Europe has been written in the last 20 years. This has left a backlog of rich settlement data and object-rich landscapes which have rarely been presented in |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe, Western
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Antiquities
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Europe -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
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Europe
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Western Europe
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9088909504 |
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9789088909504 |
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