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Early farmers : the view from archaeology and science
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- Creator
- edited by Alasdair Whittle and Penny Bickle
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- xx, 450 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780197265758, 0197265758
- OCLC
- ocn891657979
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: integrated and multi-scalar approaches to early farmers in Europe / Penny Bickle and Alasdair Whittle -- The future Neolithic : a new research agenda / John Robb -- Some possible conditions necessary for the colonisation of Europe by domesticates / John C. Barrett -- Multi-agent modeling of the trajectory of the LBK Neolithic : a study in progress / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Jérôme Dubouloz, Richard Moussa, Jean-François Berger, Anne Tresset, Elena Ortu, Jean-Denis Vigne, Robin Bendrey, Stéphanie Bréhard, Dominique Schwartz, Aurélie Salavert, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Damien Ertlen, Yoann Gauvry, Gourguen Davtian, Marc Vander Linden, Eva Lenneis, Lorette Noiret, Agnès Guillaumont and Martin O'Connor -- Ancient DNA evidence for a homogeneous maternal gene pool in sixth millennium cal BC Hungary and the Central European LBK / Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Victoria Keerl, János Jakucs, Guido Brandt, Eszter Bánffy and Kurt W. Alt -- Settlement burials at the Karsdorf LBK site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany : biological ties and residential mobility / Guido Brandt, Corina Knipper, Nicole Nicklisch, Robert Ganslmeier, Mechthild Klamm and Kurt W. Alt -- Cattle and sheep herding at Cheia, Romania, at the turn of the fifth millennium cal BC : a view from stable isotope analysis / Marie Balasse, Carlos Tornero, Stéphanie Bréhard, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Valentina Voinea and Adrian Bălăşescu -- Herding practices in the ditched villages of the Neolithic Tavoliere (Apulia, south-east Italy) : a vicious circle? The isotopic evidence / Mary Anne Tafuri, John Robb, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, Paola Iacumin, Antonietta Di Matteo and Tamsin O'Connell -- Linear pottery culture household organisation : an economic model / Lamys Hachem and Caroline Hamon -- Framing farming : a multi-stranded approach to early agricultural practice in Europe / Amy Bogaard -- Stewing on a theme of cuisine : biomolecular and interpretative approaches to culinary changes at the transition to agriculture / Hayley Saul, Aikaterini Glykou and Oliver E. Craig -- Life conditions and health in early farmers : a global perspective on costs and consequences of a fundamental transition / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Biographical bodies : flesh and food at Çatalhöyük / Jessica Pearson and Lynn Meskell -- Neolithic lifeways : microstratigraphic traces within houses, animal pens and settlements / Wendy Matthews, Lisa-Marie Shillito, Sarah Elliott, Ian D. Bull and James Williams -- Violence in Neolithic north-west Europe : a population perspective / Rick J. Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- Mass graves of the LBK : patterns and peculiarities / Christian Meyer, Christian Lohr, Olaf Kürbis, Veit Dresely, Wolfgang Haak, Christina J. Adler, Detlef Gronenborn and Kurt W. Alt -- Revealing our vibrant past : science, materiality and the Neolithic / Oliver J.T. Harris -- Pottery, archaeology and chemistry : contents and context / Jessica Smyth and Richard P. Evershed -- Constructing a narrative for the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland : the use of 'hard science' and archaeological reasoning / Alison Sheridan and Pierre Pétrequin -- Doing science in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age : an insider's perspective / John Chapman -- Archaeological science and the Neolithic : the power and perils of proxy measures / Paul Halstead