Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

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.

List of contents

• Part I: Introduction


• 1: Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann: Defining the 'Neolithic in Europe': Diverse and Contemporaneous Communities, c. 6500-2500 BC


• Part II: Mobility, Change, and Interaction at the Large Scale


• 2: Tony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore: Environments and Landscape Change


• Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People


• 3: Joannes Müller: South-East Europe


• 4: Jean Guilaine: The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula


• 5: Wolfram Schier: Central and Eastern Europe


• 6: Anne Tresset: Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe


• 7: Stephen Shennan: Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction


• Sequences of Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change


• 8: John Chapman: South-East Europe


• 9: Caroline Malone: The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe


• 10: Detlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov _: Central and Eastern Europe


• 11: Nick Thorpe: Northern and Western Europe


• Part III: Neolithic Worlds and Neolithic Lifeways


• Houses, Habitation, and Community


• 12: Pál Raczky: Tells and Settlements in South-East Europe


• 13: Demetra Papaconstantinou: Domestic Space in the Mediterranean


• 14: Jonathan Last: Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic


• 15: Francesco Menotti: Lakeside Dwellings of the Circum-Alpine Region


• 16: Anick Coudart: Households and Communities in Neolithic France


• 17: Kenneth Brophy: Houses, Halls, and Occuptation in Britain and Ireland


• 18: Mats Larsson: Places of Settlement in Southern Scandanavia


• Subsistence and Social Routine


• 19: Rich Schulting: Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation


• 20: Amy Bogaard: Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe


• 21: László Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lillie: Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe


• 22: Tony Legge _ and Peter Rowley-Conwy: Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe


• 23: Dimitrij Mleku%z: The Neolithic Year


• 24: Roy Loveday: Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles


• Materiality and Social Relations


• 25: Marjorie de Grooth: Invention and European Knapping Traditions


• 26: Pedro Díaz-del-Río and Mara Capote: Shared Labour and Large Scale Action: European Flint Mining


• 27: Gabriel Cooney: Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe


• 28: Mihael Budja: Pottery of South-East Europe


• 29: Joachim Pechtl: Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society


• 30: Rick Peterson and Johannes Müller: Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe


• 31: Marc Vander Linden: Bell Beaker Pottery and Society


• 32: Stratos Nanoglou: A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in Sou

  About the author

  Chris Fowler, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
  
  Jan Harding, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
  
  Daniela Hofmann, Junior Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University.

  Summary

  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.

  Additional text

  The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe is a great scholarly achievement and a valuable offering essential to everyone interested in the archaeology of the European Neolithic.

  Report

  The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe represents an important contribution to world literature. Jaromír Bene and Tereza Majerovicová, IANSA: Interdisciplinaria archaeologica

Product details

• Authors: Chris Fowler, Chris (Head of Archaeology & Senior Lectur Fowler, Chris (Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Arch Fowler, Chris Harding Fowler
• Assisted by: Chris Fowler (Editor), Jan Harding (Editor), Daniela Hofmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9780198832492
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883249-2
• No. of pages: 1200
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 245 mm x 55 mm
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History