Early Farmers – The View from Archaeology and Science
The View from Archaeology and Science
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Vol. 198;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2014
- ISBN 9780197265758
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages486 pages
- Size 240x165x29 mm
- Weight 998 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous figures and tables 0
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Short description:
Archaeology and science enable new and creative understandings of Europe's early farmers, answering questions that remain after more than a century of research. The challenge is to integrate multiple lines of evidence, scientific and more traditionally archaeological, while keeping in focus the principal questions that we want to ask of our data.
MoreLong description:
The Neolithic period was one of the great transformations in human history with profound, long-term consequences. In Europe, there were no farmers at 7000 cal BC, but very few hunter-gatherers after about 4000 cal BC. Although we understand the broad chronological structure of this shift, many pressing research questions remain. Archaeologists are still vigorously debating the identity of those principally involved in initiating change, the detail of everyday lives during the Neolithic, including basic questions about settlement, the operation of the farming economy and the varied roles of material culture, and the character of large-scale and long-term transformations. They face the task not only of working at different scales, but of integrating ever-expanding amounts of evidence.
As well as the data coming from larger and more intensive excavations, there has been a radical increase in the information released by many kinds of scientific analysis of archaeological remains. These now include, alongside longer established methods of looking at food remains and material, the isotopic analysis of the diet and lifetime movement of people, isotopic analysis of cereal remains for indications of manuring, a DNA analysis of genetic signatures, detailed micromorphological analysis of deposits where people lived, and the close examination of the origin and production of varying materials and artefacts.
The 21 chapters by leading experts in the field demonstrate how the combination of archaeological and scientific evidence now provides opportunities for new and creative understandings of Europe's early farmers. They make an important contribution to the debate over how best to integrate these multiple lines of evidence, scientific and more traditionally archaeological, while keeping in central focus the principal questions that we want to ask of our data.
this book will be of keen interest to prehistorians rethinking the way they understand one of the most innovative periods of human history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: integrated and multi-scalar approaches to early farmers in Europe
The future Neolithic: a new research agenda
Some possible conditions necessary for the colonisation of Europe by domesticates
Multi-agent modeling of the trajectory of the LBK Neolithic: a study in progress
Ancient DNA evidence for a homogeneous maternal gene pool in sixth millennium cal BC Hungary and the central European LBK
Settlement burials at the Karsdorf LBK site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: biological ties and residential mobility
Cattle and sheep herding at Cheia, Romania, at the turn of the fifth millennium cal BC: a view from stable isotope analysis
Herding practices in the ditched villages of the Neolithic Tavoliere (Apulia, SE Italy): a vicious circle? The isotopic evidence.
Linear Pottery culture household organisation: an economic model
Framing farming: a multi-stranded approach to early agricultural practice in Europe
Stewing on a theme of cuisine: biomolecular and interpretative approaches to culinary changes at the transition to agriculture
Life conditions and health in early farmers: a global perspective on costs and consequences of a fundamental transition
Biographical bodies: flesh and food at --atalh--y--k
Neolithic lifeways: microstratigraphic traces within houses, animal pens and settlements
Violence in the Neolithic: a population perspective
Mass graves of the LBK: patterns and peculiarities
Revealing our vibrant past: science, materiality and the Neolithic
Pottery, Archaeology and Chemistry: contents and context
Constructing a narrative for the Neolithisation of Britain and Ireland: the use of 'hard science' and archaeological reasoning
Doing science in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age: an insider's perspective
Archaeological science and the Neolithic: the power and perils of proxy measures
