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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.
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Neolithic Bodies (Paperback)
Penny Bickle, Emilie Sibbesson
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As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments
in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the
theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area.
This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference
2014, captures the variety of debates developing across research
into the Neolithic bodies of the Near East and Europe. Papers are
divided into three themes; living bodies, the body in death and the
representation of the body. In the first section, papers present
new research assessing skeletal evidence, alongside new
interpretations of the body in the Southern British Neolithic to
examine the lived experience of the body in the Neolithic. The
second theme illustrates the variety of approaches arising from the
study of death and burial, focusing on the many different ways the
dead were treated during the Neolithic. The third theme examines
the body as it is represented in Neolithic art, through artefacts
and the stone stele found in Western and Mediterranean Europe. The
volume begins with an introduction to the recent developments in
the field and concludes with a discussion chapter from Julian
Thomas, which sets an agenda for future studies on this theme. The
approaches taken in the papers presented here bridge many different
methodologies, ranging from theoretical treatises to methodological
debates. Overall, the volume presents the study of the body in the
Neolithic as a contested site, at which overlapping research themes
meet, and addresses the insights provided by thinking about past
bodies.
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of
the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture
(Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse
use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material
culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of
LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for
instance, the expansion and increasing density of settlement,
progressive regionalisation in pottery decoration, and at the end
some signs of stress or even localised crisis. Although showing
many features in common across its very broad distribution,
however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere the same, and there
is a complicated mixture of uniformity and diversity. This major
study takes a strikingly large regional sample, from northern
Hungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine
valley, and addresses the question of the extent of diversity in
the lifeways of developed and late LBK communities, through a
wide-ranging study of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physical
condition, the presentation of the bodies of the deceased in
mortuary ritual. It uses an innovative combination of isotopic
(principally carbon, nitrogen and strontium, with some oxygen),
osteological and archaeological analysis to address difference and
change across the LBK, and to reflect on cultural change in
general.
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