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Book Synopsis The Neolithisation of Denmark by : Anders Fischer
Download or read book The Neolithisation of Denmark written by Anders Fischer and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, articles and essays explores the ongoing debate on the neolithisation of Denmark from various disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, botany, zoology, sociology, environmental studies, history and the hard sciences.
Book Synopsis Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark by : T. Douglas Price
Download or read book Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark written by T. Douglas Price and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes 30 years of fieldwork in Denmark, some of the evidence for the spread of agriculture and the Neolithic into Scandinavia and some opinions about the origins of agriculture. It is intended to be both academic and personal and to describe the actual process of research, because most projects involve elements of both. There is an introduction to each chapter that relates some of the more personal aspects of the research and the bulk of each chapter will be a more technical scientific report on our investigations. Each chapter will deal with one of the components of the project - survey, testing and excavations. We excavated eight sites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic that are discussed in this volume. The concluding chapter summarizes our research in the area and proffers opinions on a variety of archaeological subjects, with visits to climate change, seasonality and sedentism, hunter-gatherer complexity, aDNA, inequality and the origins and spread of agriculture.
Book Synopsis The Prehistory of Denmark by : Jorgen Jensen
Download or read book The Prehistory of Denmark written by Jorgen Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis From Stone to Bronze by : Helle Vandkilde
Download or read book From Stone to Bronze written by Helle Vandkilde and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and useful study on the previously neglected phase of metallurgical adoption in Denmark, c.2350-1500 BC. It presents a coherent analysis of the entire corpus of Danish metal finds from this period, with especial emphasis on establishing an accurate chronology, based on several qualitative and quantitative analyses of the data. Conclusions drawn are then used to discuss the socio-political and economic structure of this important phase of man's development.
Book Synopsis The Transformation of Neolithic Societies by : Rune Iversen
Download or read book The Transformation of Neolithic Societies written by Rune Iversen and published by Aarhus University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about socio-cultural developments in eastern Denmark during the 3rd millennium BC. The aurthor's aim is to advance a new and coherent understanding of cultural and social developments as evident from the late Funnel Beaker period to the emergence of incipient Bronze Age societies at the onset of the 2nd millennium BC.
Book Synopsis An Ethnography of the Neolithic by : Christopher Tilley
Download or read book An Ethnography of the Neolithic written by Christopher Tilley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological research in Sweden and Denmark has uncovered a startling array of evidence over the last 150 years, but until now there has been no comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the material. An Ethnography of the Neolithic bridges this gap, giving an accessible and up-to-date analysis of a wide range of evidence, from landscapes to monumental tombs to portable artifacts. Christopher Tilley also uses this material as a basis for a provocative and novel reconstruction of late Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic societies in southern Scandinavia, over a period of 3,000 years. His skilful integration of archaeological evidence with new anthropological approaches makes this book an original contribution to an important topic, whose significance stretches outside Scandinavia, and beyond the Neolithic.
Book Synopsis Houses for the Living by : Ole Thirup Kastholm
Download or read book Houses for the Living written by Ole Thirup Kastholm and published by University Press of Southern Denmark. This book was released on 2019 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6,000 years ago, people began to cultivate the soils of Northern Europe, and with the introduction of agriculture, permanent settlement was adopted. How did these people live and what was the architecture of their dwellings? This publication will examine the subject. In 2012, we held a conference about two-aisled houses at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen. The aim of the conference was to establish the current state of affairs in terms of research within this area. It soon became clear that an extensive - and largely unpublished - group of source material, which was of great academic interest, existed in Denmark. It was also clear that what was very much required was to gather and present the most important recent results and perspectives in a national summary. This constitutes the basis of this publication, to which all museums in Denmark with archaeological responsibility have contributed. The articles have quite surprisingly indicated that hundreds of longhouses have been excavated. The houses share obvious common traits, but also vary considerably. For example, they include both small houses of only 30 m2 and large, almost hall-like houses covering nearly 300 m2. Today, there are few areas of Denmark where such houses have not been found. This publication presents the remains of over 1,000 two-aisled houses from more than 500 excavations in Denmark, as well as a few excavations in the northernmost part of Germany. However, throughout this area, a more precise chronological and typological grouping of the houses is still lacking. These questions will be examined in this publication, which apart from articles about the houses in the different parts of the country, also contains a complete catalogue of all the known longhouses dating to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Denmark.
Book Synopsis Denmark Before the Vikings by : Ole Klindt-Jensen
Download or read book Denmark Before the Vikings written by Ole Klindt-Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark by : T. Douglas Price
Download or read book Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark written by T. Douglas Price and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account chronicling over 30 years of excavation and survey projects investigating the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark and demonstrating the process of research.
Book Synopsis Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark by : T. Douglas Price
Download or read book Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark written by T. Douglas Price and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes 30 years of fieldwork in Denmark, some of the evidence for the spread of agriculture and the Neolithic into Scandinavia and some opinions about the origins of agriculture. It is intended to be both academic and personal and to describe the actual process of research, because most projects involve elements of both. There is an introduction to each chapter that relates some of the more personal aspects of the research and the bulk of each chapter will be a more technical scientific report on our investigations. Each chapter will deal with one of the components of the project - survey, testing and excavations. We excavated eight sites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic that are discussed in this volume. The concluding chapter summarizes our research in the area and proffers opinions on a variety of archaeological subjects, with visits to climate change, seasonality and sedentism, hunter-gatherer complexity, aDNA, inequality and the origins and spread of agriculture.
Book Synopsis Argonauts of the Stone Age by : Andrzej Pydyn
Download or read book Argonauts of the Stone Age written by Andrzej Pydyn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a full account of stone age seafaring presenting the archaeological evidence in the context of the changing world environment and uses ethnographic sources to broaden the readers understanding of the worlds earliest sea craft.
Book Synopsis From Bann Flakes to Bushmills by : Nyree Finlay
Download or read book From Bann Flakes to Bushmills written by Nyree Finlay and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of papers is dedicated to Peter Woodman in celebration of his contribution to archaeology, providing a glimpse of the many ways in which he has touched the lives of so many. The twenty-one contributions cover many aspects of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in Ireland, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the range and breadth of Peters own interests and the international esteem in which his work is held. His particular interest in antiquarians and the material they collected began early in his career and Part 1 presents papers which deal with artefacts and finds by antiquarians. Part 2 is concerned with papers on fieldwork projects, both new sites and sites which have been re-investigated, predominantly focusing on the Mesolithic period. Part 3 presents papers on the theme of people and animals, particularly the topic of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition from different angles.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe by : Chris Fowler
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe written by Chris Fowler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Smakkerup Huse by : Anne Birgitte Gebauer
Download or read book Smakkerup Huse written by Anne Birgitte Gebauer and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeological site of Smakkerup Huse is located at the headwaters of a former fjord known as the SaltbAek Vig on the northwest coast of the island of Zealand, Denmark. Excavations took place in 1989 and again from 1995 to 1997 by a team of Danish and American archaeologists. The site is important for a number of reasons, including the 1000-year record of cultural deposits and the preservation of abundant subsistence remains and wooden objects. Smakkerup Huse documents some of the oldest domestic cattle in Denmark and a new artifact type, a painted pebble, from the Mesolithic. While the settlement area of the site on land had been eroded, the waterlain deposits adjacent to the site preserved a submerged midden and an in situ fishing and boat landing area. The report on the site includes background on the Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia, a history of research at the site, the geology and topography of the site and its environment, the layout and sequence of the excavations, stratigraphy, the finds, dating, interpretation and significance. T. Douglas Price is Weinstein Professor of European Archaeology and Director of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Book Synopsis Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe by : Gordon Noble
Download or read book Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe written by Gordon Noble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neolithic period is one of the great transformations in human history - when agriculture first began and dramatic changes occurred in human society. These changes occurred in environments that were radically different to those that exist today, and in northern Europe many landscapes would have been dominated by woodland. Yet wood and woodland rarely figures in the minds of many archaeologists, and it plays no part in the traditional Three Age system that has defined the frameworks of European prehistory. This book explores how human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of farming, and how the Neolithic in northern Europe was made possible through new ways of living in and understanding the environment. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, from pollen data and stone axes to the remains of timber monuments and settlements, the book analyzes the relationship between people, their material culture, and their woodland environment.
Book Synopsis Wild Things by : Frederick W. F. Foulds
Download or read book Wild Things written by Frederick W. F. Foulds and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate how archaeologists in these fields are truly at the cutting edge of understanding humanityÍs past. This volume celebrates this trend by focusing on recent advances in the study of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. With contributors from a diverse range of backgrounds, it allows for a greater degree of interdisciplinary discourse than is often the case, as the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic are generally split apart. Wild Things brings together contributions from major researchers and early career specialists, detailing research taking place across the British Isles, France, Portugal, Russia, the Levant and Europe as a whole, providing a cross-section of the exciting range of research being conducted. By combining papers from both these periods, it is hoped that dialogue between practitioners of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology can be further encouraged. Topics include: the chronology of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic of European Russia; territorial use of Alpine high altitude areas by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer; discussing the feasibility of reconstructing Neanderthal demography to examine their extinction; the funerary contexts from the Mesolithic burials at Muge; the discovery of further British Upper Palaeolithic parietal art at Cathole Cave; exploitation of both lithics and fauna in Palaeolithic France; and an analysis of Mesolithic/Neolithic trade in Europe.
Book Synopsis Farmers at the Frontier by : Kurt J Gron
Download or read book Farmers at the Frontier written by Kurt J Gron and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the start of farming on the continent because it means that ultimately, domesticated plants and animals came from somewhere else, and from someone else. In an area as vast as Europe, the process by which food production becomes the predominant subsistence strategy is of course highly variable, but in a sense the outcome is the same, and has the potential for addressing more large-scale questions regarding agricultural origins. Therefore, a detailed understanding of all aspects of farming in its absolute earliest form in various regions of Europe can potentially provide a new perspective on the mechanisms by which this monumental change comes to human societies and regions. In this volume, we aim to collect various perspectives regarding the earliest farming from across Europe. Methodological approaches, archaeological cultures, and geographic locations in Europe are variable, but all papers engage with the simple question: What was the earliest farming like? This volume opens a conversation about agriculture just after the transition in order to address the role incoming people, technologies, and adaptations have in secondary adoptions. The book starts with an introduction by the editors which will serve to contextualize the theme of the volume. The broad arguments concerning the process of neolithisation are addressed, and the rationale for the volume discussed. Contributions are ordered geographically and chronologically, given the progression of the Neolithic across Europe. The editors conclude the volume with a short commentary paper regarding the theme of the volume.
