Prehistoric Europe

Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2596-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology

Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of critical contemporary thinking in the study of European prehistory.

- Presents essays by some of the most dynamic researchers and leading European scholars in the field today

- Ranges from the Neolithic period to the early stages of the Iron Age, and from Ireland and Scandinavia to the Urals and the Iberian Peninsula

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xv

Introduction 1

Andrew Jones

1 Frameworks for the Analysis of European Prehistory 14

Introduction 14

(a) Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers? 16

Mark Pluciennik

(b) The Celts as ‘Grand Narrative’ 35

John Collis

2 Landscape and Place 54

Introduction 54

(a) From Monuments in Landscape to Landscapes in Monuments: Monuments, Death and Landscape in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia 56

Joakim Goldhahn

(b) Everything in its Right Place? On Selective Deposition, Landscape and the Construction of Identity in Later Prehistory 86

David Fontijn

3 The Living House – Architecture, the Everyday and the Human Lifecycle 107

Introduction 107

(a) First Households and ‘House Societies’ in European Prehistory 109

Dušan Boric

(b) Domestic Times: Houses and Temporalities in Late Prehistoric Europe 143

Fokke Gerritsen

4 Materiality, Technology and Transformation – The Emergence of Novel Technologies 162

Introduction 162

(a) The Emergence of Pottery 164

Dragos Gheorghiu

(b) The Emergence of Metalworking 193

Barbara S. Ottaway and Ben Roberts

5 Death, Remembrance and the Past 226

Introduction 226

(a) Engaging Memories of European Prehistory 228

Katina T. Lillios

(b) The Past in Later Prehistory 255

Bryan Hanks

6 Identity, Community, the Body and the Person 285

Introduction 285

(a) Neolithic Bodies 287

Daniela Hofmann and Alasdair Whittle

(b) Bodies and Identities in the Scandinavian Late Iron Age 312

Ing-Marie Back Danielsson

7 Interaction, Trade and Exchange 330

Introduction 330

(a) Approaches to Trade and Exchange in Earlier Prehistory (Late Mesolithic–Early Bronze Age) 333

John Chapman

(b) Trade and Exchange in Later Prehistory 356

Peter Wells

Index 373

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Jones is currently a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Southampton. He is the author of several books including Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice (2001).