The Archaeology of People

Dimensions of Neolithic Life
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-30407-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate.

The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain.

Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and structure are dealt with, but Professor Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful.
Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which constituted Neolithic existence: the web of daily routines, group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes to the past.

The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic which will offer insights to readers at every level.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittle, Alisdair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Being there 2 The daily round 3 Difficult individuals 4 What animals were like 5 Looking back 6 Lives 7 What happened in history?

Über Autor(innen)

Alasdair Whittle is a research professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University. His previous publications include Europe in the Neolithic: the creation of new worlds (1996) and (with Joshua Pollard and Caroline Grigson) The Harmony of Symbols: the Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire (1999).