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The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation
of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge
the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic
archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched
Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to
further explore the interconnection between individuals,
households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing
questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a
variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the
cross-cutting concerns which unite LBK studies in their different
regional research contexts and paves the way for further debate on
the subject.
The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned
papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international
scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from
south-east Europe to Britain and Ireland and chronologically from
the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with a decided focus on the
former. Several papers discuss new scientific approaches to key
questions in Neolithic research, while others offer interpretive
accounts of aspects of the archaeological record. Thematically, the
main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Neolithic daily
life, settlements and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects
of worldview. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact
of techniques such as isotopic analysis and statistically modelled
radiocarbon dates on our understanding of mobility, diet,
lifestyles, events and historical processes. The volume is
presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle
has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and
British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from
hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and
sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by
archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and
people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic
architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of
sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the
beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the
construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as
agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and
material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters
are arranged chronologically so that authors can address
differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones.
To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the
following considerations: construction materials and architectural
characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from
hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and
sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by
archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and
people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic
architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of
sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the
beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the
construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as
agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and
material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters
are arranged chronologically so that authors can address
differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones.
To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the
following considerations: construction materials and architectural
characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from
hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and
sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by
archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and
people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic
architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of
sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the
beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the
construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as
agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and
material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters
are arranged chronologically so that authors can address
differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones.
To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the
following considerations: construction materials and architectural
characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
This volume is the product of a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)
conference session (held at Lampeter, Wales, in December 2003)
entitled Mentalites and Identities in Motion. The session centred
on the role of past ways of thinking, feeling and acting in social
transformation, and exploring past worldviews as (instead of being
relegated to the 'fictional' or anecdotal) an integral part of
every aspect of human life, not just explicit contexts of power
struggles and domination, but also approachable from the material
evidence. The contributions are widely spread across space and
time, ranging from Northern Ireland to Sicily, from France to
Bulgaria and covering almost every period from the Mesolithic to
the Thirty Years' War. On top of this, they are also very different
in methodology, in the ways they have interpreted the session title
and approached their evidence.
The Neolithic -a period in which the first sedentary agrarian
communities were established across much of Europe-has been a key
topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the
variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which
research is carried out, and the way research traditions in
different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both
students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide
trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first
comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the
European Neolithic -from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta
-offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of
key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and
interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field
examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and
people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and
isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of
farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture;
subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other
treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the
history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work
in the field.
Nachhaltige Lebensmittel, nachhaltige Textilien, nachhaltiger
Konsum - immer mehr Unternehmen orientieren sich am Trend und den
Grundsatzen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Damit bedienen sie nicht
nur einen wachsenden Markt, sondern schonen gleichzeitig naturliche
Ressourcen und senken so ihre Produktionskosten. Das Praxishandbuch
zeigt Unternehmen, wie sie ihre Produktion und ihr Marketing
langfristig auf nachhaltige Methoden und Techniken umstellen
koennen. Dabei folgen die Autoren dem Green Marketing. Dieser
Ansatz geht auf das steigende Umweltbewusstsein der Kunden ein und
hilft so Unternehmen, die eigene Marktposition mithilfe
nachhaltiger Produkte zu starken. Die Autoren richten sich damit an
mittelstandische Unternehmen sowie Entscheider und Fuhrungskrafte
in groesseren Unternehmen, die wissen moechten, wie sie mit
umweltbewusster Produktentwicklung neue Markte erschliessen und
ihre Wettbewerbsfahigkeit steigern koennen. Das Buch ist in vier
Themenbloecke zusammengefasst. Dabei geht es sowohl um
grundsatzliche Fragen, als auch praktische Fragen: Welche Faktoren
begunstigen die Entwicklung nachhaltiger Produkte? Was sind die
betrieblichen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen? Was sind die
Phasen der nachhaltigen Produktentwicklung? Und wie koennen
Unternehmen umweltfreundliche Produkte am besten vermarkten?
The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a
veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still
strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at
its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism,
representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement
system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these
inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of
increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them
defined through pottery only. This tension between large-scale
interaction and more local developments remains ill understood,
largely because inter-regional comparisons are lacking.
Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date regional overviews
of the main developments in the fifth millennium and discuss,
amongst others, in how far ceramically-defined 'cultures' can be
seen as spatially coherent social groups with their own way of life
and worldview, and how processes of innovation can be understood.
Case studies range from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands,
hunter-gatherer - farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to the
Italian Neolithic. Amongst others, they cover the circulation of
stone disc-rings in western Europe, the formation of post-LBK
societies in central Europe and the reliability of pottery as an
indicator for social transformations.
The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social
roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of
different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case
studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification
of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. These
concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their
development, the changing role of objects as they shift between
different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as
well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as
agents of social and economic change. Among the specific questions
the papers address is what happens when new objects of value are
introduced into a system, or when existing objects go out of use,
as well as how exchange systems react to events such as crises or
the emergence of new polities and social constellations. One theme
that unites most of the papers is the tension between what is
introduced from the outside and changes that are driven by social
transformations within a given group.
The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a
veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still
strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at
its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism,
representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement
system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these
inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of
increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them
defined through pottery only. This tension between large-scale
interaction and more local developments remains ill understood,
largely because inter-regional comparisons are lacking.
Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date regional overviews
of the main developments in the fifth millennium and discuss,
amongst others, in how far ceramically-defined 'cultures' can be
seen as spatially coherent social groups with their own way of life
and worldview, and how processes of innovation can be understood.
Case studies range from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands,
hunter-gatherer - farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to the
Italian Neolithic. Amongst others, they cover the circulation of
stone disc-rings in western Europe, the formation of post-LBK
societies in central Europe and the reliability of pottery as an
indicator for social transformations.
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