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Appendices: Persistent Traditions (Paperback)
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Appendices: Persistent Traditions (Paperback)
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The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in
human history. Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the
trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest Europe were diverse.
This book presents a study into the archaeology of the communities
involved in the process of Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area
(5500-2500 cal BC). It elucidates the role played by the indigenous
communities in relation to their environmental context and in view
of the changes that becoming Neolithic brought about. This volume
contains the appendices to the thesis 'Persistent traditions. A
long-term perspective on communities in the process of
Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area (5500-2500 cal BC)'. These
constitute a comprehensive inventory of 159, mostly excavated,
archaeological sites in the Lower Rhine Area for which general
characteristics were recorded. Their analysis shows that the
succession of Late Mesolithic, Swifterbant culture, Hazendonk group
and Vlaardingen culture societies represents a continuous long-term
tradition of inhabitation of the wetlands and wetland margins of
this area, forming a culturally continuous record of communities in
the transition to agriculture. The site catalogue forms both an
overview of, and detailed introduction into, the site-based
archaeology of this time frame. After demonstrating the diversity
of the Mesolithic, the subsequent developments regarding
Neolithisation are studied from an indigenous perspective.
Foregrounding the relationship between local communities and the
dynamic wetland landscape, the archaeological evidence regarding
its regional inhabitation points to long-term flexible behaviour
and pragmatic decisions being made. For the interpretation of
Neolithisation this study offers a complementary approach to
existing research. Instead of arguing for a short transition based
on the economic importance of domesticates and cultigens at sites,
the emphasis is placed on the persistent traditions of the
communities involved. New elements, instead of bringing about
radical changes, are shown to be attuned to existing
hunter-gatherer practices. By documenting indications of the
mentalite of the inhabitants of the wetlands, it is demonstrated
that their mindset remained essentially 'Mesolithic' for millennia.
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