Historians, classicists, and archaeologists present research and review papers on Neolithic Europe. Their topics include encounters in the watery realm: early to mid-Holocene geochronologies of Lower Danube human-river interactions, stag-do: ritual implications of antler use in prehistory, feasts and sacrifices: fifth-millennium "pseudo-ditch" causewayed enclosures from the southern Upper Rhine Valley, sudden time: natural disasters as a stimulus to monument building from Pillsbury Hill in Britain to Antequera in Spain, and remembered and imagined belongings: Stonehenge in the age of first metals. Distributed in North America by Casemate Academic. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from southeast 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 world view. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact of techniques such as isotopic analysis and statistically modeled 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.
Presents 18 commissioned papers on the Neolithisation of Europe, with new insights into settlement, subsistence, mobility, monumentality, lifestyle and dating.
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