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Title:
The Oxford handbook of neolithic Europe / edited by Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann.
Author:
Fowler, Chris, 1973- editor.

Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Number:
GN775 .O94 2015
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199545841
Series:
Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 1166 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Mobility, change, and interaction at the large scale -- Environments and landscape change / Movements of plants, animals, ideas, and people in South-East Europe / The neolithization of Mediterranean Europe : mobility and interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula / Central and Western Europe / Moving animals and plants in the early Neolithic of North-Western Europe / Language, genes, and cultural interaction / The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic / The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe / Early Neolithic manifestations in Central and Eastern Europe / The Atlantic Mesolithic-Neolithic transition / Neolithic worlds and Neolithic lifeways -- Settlements in South-East Europe / Domestic space in the Mediterranean / Longhouse lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic / Lakeside dwellings in the Circum alpine region / The Bandkeramik longhouses : a material, social, and mental metaphor for small-scale sedentary societies / Houses, halls, and occupation in Britain and Ireland / Places of settlement in southern Scandinavia / Stable isotopes and Neolithic subsistence : pattern and variation / Subsistence practices and social routine in Neolithic Southern Europe / Subsistence practices in Central and Eastern Europe / Subsistence practices in Western and Northern Europe / The Neolithic year / Religious routine and pilgrimage in the British Isles / Invention and European knapping traditions / Shared labour and large-scale action : European flint mining / Stone and flint axes in Neolithic Europe / Pots and potters in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in South-East Europe / Linearbandkeramik pottery and society / Ceramics and society in Northern Europe / Bell beaker pottery and society / A miniature world : models and figurines in South-East Europe / Spondylus gaederopus/Glycymeris exchange networks in the European Neolithic and Chalcothic / Amber / The first metalwork and expressions of social power / Early metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean / Early metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe / Deposition in pits / Animals and social relations / Monuments, rock art, and cosmology -- Central European enclosures / Italian enclosures / Causewayed enclosures in Northern and Western Europe / Chambered tombs and passage graves of Western and Northern Europe / Neolithic rock art in Iberia / The rock art tradition of Valcamonica-Valtellina during the Neolithic period / Rock art and the rock surface : Neolithic rock art traditions of Britain, Ireland, and northernmost Europe / Underground religion in the central Mediterranean Neolithic / A place in the cosmos : celestial bodies and the passage graves of Western Europe / Death, bodies, and persons -- Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in the Neolithic and early-middle Copper Age of South-East Europe / Burial and human body representations in the Mediterranean Neolithic / Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in Central Europe / Mortuary practices, bodies, and persons in Northern Europe / Mortuary practices and bodily representations in North-West Europe / Debates in Neolithic archaeology -- Unexpected histories? : South-East and Central Europe / Commentary : what do we mean by "Neolithic societies?" / The decline of the Neolithic and the rise of Bronze Age society
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