The Birth of Neolithic Britain
An Interpretive Account
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199681969
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 241x161x36 mm
- Weight 944 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 105 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain marks the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, polished stone tools, and a range of new monuments. Using a synthesis of this material, Thomas offers a coherent argument to explain the process of transition between the Mesolithic-Neolithic periods.
MoreLong description:
The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows and megalithic tombs. Every year, numerous new articles are published on different aspects of the topic, ranging from diet and subsistence economy to population movement, architecture, and seafaring. Thomas offers a treatment that synthesizes all of this material, presenting a coherent argument to explain the process of transition between the Mesolithic-Neolithic periods.
Necessarily, the developments in Britain are put into the context of broader debates about the origins of agriculture in Europe, and the diversity of processes of change in different parts of the continent are explored. These are followed by a historiographic treatment of debates on the transition in Britain. Chapters cover the Mesolithic background, processes of contact and interaction, monumental architecture and timber halls, portable artefacts, and plants and animals. The concluding argument is that developments in the economy and material culture must be understood as being related to fundamental social transformations.
Julian Thomas has presented a strong and well-argued statement
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Problem
The Neolithization of Southern Europe
The Neolithization of Northern Europe
The Neolithization of Europe: Themes
The Neolithic Transition in Britain: A Critical Historiography
Mesolithic Prelude?
Times and Places
Contact, Interaction and Seafaring
Architecture: Halls and Houses
Architecture: Timber Structures, Long Mounds and Megaliths
Portable Artefacts: Tradition and Transmission
Plants and Animals Diet and Social Capital
Conclusion: A Model for the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Britain
Bibliography
Index
