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The Birth of Neolithic Britain - An Interpretive Account (Hardcover)
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The Birth of Neolithic Britain - An Interpretive Account (Hardcover)
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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.
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