The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
Published on 10. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
1202 pages
978-0-19-883249-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe represents an important contribution to world literature. * Jaromir Bene and Tereza Majerovicova, IANSA: Interdisciplinaria archaeologica * The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe is a great scholarly achievement and a valuable offering essential to everyone interested in the archaeology of the European Neolithic. * Evita Kalogiropoulou, European Journal of Archaeology *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
197 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 60 mm
Weight
2226 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-883249-2 (9780198832492)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Chris Fowler, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
Jan Harding, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
Daniela Hofmann, Junior Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University.
Jan Harding, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
Daniela Hofmann, Junior Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University.
Editor
Head of Archaeology & Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric ArchaeologyHead of Archaeology & Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University
Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric ArchaeologySenior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University
Junior Professor of Prehistoric ArchaeologyJunior Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University
Content
Part I: Introduction
1: Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann: Defining the 'Neolithic in Europe': Diverse and Contemporaneous Communities, c. 6500-2500 BC
Part II: Mobility, Change, and Interaction at the Large Scale
2: Tony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore: Environments and Landscape Change
Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People
3: Joannes Mueller: South-East Europe
4: Jean Guilaine: The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula
5: Wolfram Schier: Central and Eastern Europe
6: Anne Tresset: Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe
7: Stephen Shennan: Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction
Sequences of Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change
8: John Chapman: South-East Europe
9: Caroline Malone: The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
10: Detlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov DR: Central and Eastern Europe
11: Nick Thorpe: Northern and Western Europe
Part III: Neolithic Worlds and Neolithic Lifeways
Houses, Habitation, and Community
12: Pal Raczky: Tells and Settlements in South-East Europe
13: Demetra Papaconstantinou: Domestic Space in the Mediterranean
14: Jonathan Last: Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic
15: Francesco Menotti: Lakeside Dwellings of the Circum-Alpine Region
16: Anick Coudart: Households and Communities in Neolithic France
17: Kenneth Brophy: Houses, Halls, and Occuptation in Britain and Ireland
18: Mats Larsson: Places of Settlement in Southern Scandanavia
Subsistence and Social Routine
19: Rich Schulting: Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation
20: Amy Bogaard: Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe
21: Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lillie: Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe
22: Tony Legge DR and Peter Rowley-Conwy: Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
23: Dimitrij Mleku%z: The Neolithic Year
24: Roy Loveday: Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles
Materiality and Social Relations
25: Marjorie de Grooth: Invention and European Knapping Traditions
26: Pedro Diaz-del-Rio and Mara Capote: Shared Labour and Large Scale Action: European Flint Mining
27: Gabriel Cooney: Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe
28: Mihael Budja: Pottery of South-East Europe
29: Joachim Pechtl: Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society
30: Rick Peterson and Johannes Mueller: Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe
31: Marc Vander Linden: Bell Beaker Pottery and Society
32: Stratos Nanoglou: A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East Europe
33: John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska: Spondylus and Shell Ornaments
34: Tony Axelsson, Morten Ramstad, and Anders Strinnholm: Amber
35: Volker Heyd and Katherine Walker: The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power
36: Mark Pearce and Martin Bartelheim: Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean
37: Ben Roberts and Catherine Frieman: Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe
38: Duncan Garrow: Deposition in Pits
39: Arkadiusz Marciniak and Joshua Pollard: Animals and Social Relations
Monuments, Rock Art, and Cosmology
40: Joerg Petrasch: Central European Enclosures
41: Robin Skeates: Italian Enclosures
42: Niels Andersen: Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western Europe
43: Vicki Cummings, Magdalena Midgeley DR, and Chris Scarre: Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Northern and Western Europe
44: Sara Fairen-Jiminez: Rock Carvings in Iberia
45: Angelo Fossati: Rock Carvings in South Central Europe
46: Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Jones, and Kalle Sognnes: Rock Carvings in Northern Europe
47: Robin Skeates: Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
48: Michael Hoskin: A Place in the Cosmos: Monuments and Celestial Bodies
Death, Bodies, and Persons
49: Du%san Bori'c: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early-Middle Copper Ages of South-East Europe
50: John Robb: Burial and Human Body Representations in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
51: Daniela Hofmann and Joerg Orschiedt: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central Europe
52: Karl-Goeran Sjoegren: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in North-East Europe
53: Chris Fowler and Chris Scarre: Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West Europe
Part IV: Conclusion: Debates in Neolithic Archaeology
54: Alasdair Whittle: Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central Europe
55: Julian Thomas: What Do We Mean By 'Neolithic Societies'?
56: Kristian Kristiansen: The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of the Bronze Age Society
1: Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann: Defining the 'Neolithic in Europe': Diverse and Contemporaneous Communities, c. 6500-2500 BC
Part II: Mobility, Change, and Interaction at the Large Scale
2: Tony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore: Environments and Landscape Change
Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People
3: Joannes Mueller: South-East Europe
4: Jean Guilaine: The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula
5: Wolfram Schier: Central and Eastern Europe
6: Anne Tresset: Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe
7: Stephen Shennan: Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction
Sequences of Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change
8: John Chapman: South-East Europe
9: Caroline Malone: The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
10: Detlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov DR: Central and Eastern Europe
11: Nick Thorpe: Northern and Western Europe
Part III: Neolithic Worlds and Neolithic Lifeways
Houses, Habitation, and Community
12: Pal Raczky: Tells and Settlements in South-East Europe
13: Demetra Papaconstantinou: Domestic Space in the Mediterranean
14: Jonathan Last: Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic
15: Francesco Menotti: Lakeside Dwellings of the Circum-Alpine Region
16: Anick Coudart: Households and Communities in Neolithic France
17: Kenneth Brophy: Houses, Halls, and Occuptation in Britain and Ireland
18: Mats Larsson: Places of Settlement in Southern Scandanavia
Subsistence and Social Routine
19: Rich Schulting: Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation
20: Amy Bogaard: Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe
21: Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lillie: Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe
22: Tony Legge DR and Peter Rowley-Conwy: Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
23: Dimitrij Mleku%z: The Neolithic Year
24: Roy Loveday: Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles
Materiality and Social Relations
25: Marjorie de Grooth: Invention and European Knapping Traditions
26: Pedro Diaz-del-Rio and Mara Capote: Shared Labour and Large Scale Action: European Flint Mining
27: Gabriel Cooney: Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe
28: Mihael Budja: Pottery of South-East Europe
29: Joachim Pechtl: Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society
30: Rick Peterson and Johannes Mueller: Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe
31: Marc Vander Linden: Bell Beaker Pottery and Society
32: Stratos Nanoglou: A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East Europe
33: John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska: Spondylus and Shell Ornaments
34: Tony Axelsson, Morten Ramstad, and Anders Strinnholm: Amber
35: Volker Heyd and Katherine Walker: The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power
36: Mark Pearce and Martin Bartelheim: Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean
37: Ben Roberts and Catherine Frieman: Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe
38: Duncan Garrow: Deposition in Pits
39: Arkadiusz Marciniak and Joshua Pollard: Animals and Social Relations
Monuments, Rock Art, and Cosmology
40: Joerg Petrasch: Central European Enclosures
41: Robin Skeates: Italian Enclosures
42: Niels Andersen: Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western Europe
43: Vicki Cummings, Magdalena Midgeley DR, and Chris Scarre: Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Northern and Western Europe
44: Sara Fairen-Jiminez: Rock Carvings in Iberia
45: Angelo Fossati: Rock Carvings in South Central Europe
46: Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Jones, and Kalle Sognnes: Rock Carvings in Northern Europe
47: Robin Skeates: Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
48: Michael Hoskin: A Place in the Cosmos: Monuments and Celestial Bodies
Death, Bodies, and Persons
49: Du%san Bori'c: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early-Middle Copper Ages of South-East Europe
50: John Robb: Burial and Human Body Representations in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
51: Daniela Hofmann and Joerg Orschiedt: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central Europe
52: Karl-Goeran Sjoegren: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in North-East Europe
53: Chris Fowler and Chris Scarre: Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West Europe
Part IV: Conclusion: Debates in Neolithic Archaeology
54: Alasdair Whittle: Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central Europe
55: Julian Thomas: What Do We Mean By 'Neolithic Societies'?
56: Kristian Kristiansen: The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of the Bronze Age Society