Birth of Neolithic Britain (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
528
Utgivningsdatum
2013-11-28
Förlag
Oxford University Press
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259 x 183 x 33 mm
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1044 g
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1
ISBN
9780199681969

Birth of Neolithic Britain

An Interpretive Account

av Julian Thomas, Julian Thomas, Thomas
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2013-11-28
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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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Detlef Gronenborn, Antiquity Julian Thomas has presented a strong and well-argued statement

Chris Catling, Society of Antiquaries magazine, Salon This is a book that fizzes with new and plausible ideas that transcend the Neolithic: anyone interested in periods of momentous cultural change, such as from stone- to metal-using societies, or from Roman to Saxon, will reap rich rewards from reading this book

Joshua Pollard, British Archaeology very thoroughly researched ... very carefully crafted.

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Julian Thomas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

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