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Persistent traditions : a long-term perspective on communities in the process of Neolithisation in the lower Rhine Area (5500-2500 cal BC) /
The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in human history. Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest Europe were diverse. This book presents a study into the archaeology of the communities involved in the process of Neolithisati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From Hardinxveld to Noordhoorn and beyond; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Research aims: point of departure; 1.3 Research area and dataset; 1.4 Structure and methodology: a road map; 1.5 Background; Notes; Thoughts in transition
- A European perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The mechanics of spread; 2.3 In search of causality; 2.4 Back to Basics?; 2.5 Defining scope; Notes; Thoughts on transition
- The Lower Rhine Area; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Neolithic successions: a brief overview; 3.3 On the fringe ... ; 3.3.1 Cultural developments; 3.3.2 Material developments and contact.
- 3.3.3 Introducing domesticates and cultigens3.3.4 Settling down?; 3.4 Factors of perception; 3.4.1 Bias I: the upland-wetland dichotomy; 3.4.2 Bias II: the Scandinavian paragon; 3.4.3 Bias III: the constructs of Mesolithic and Neolithic; 3.5 Perspectives on Neolithisation; 3.6 Concluding remarks; Notes; Lower Rhine Area sites: a qualitative review; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A regional distinction; 4.2.1 Mountainous zone; 4.2.2 Loess region; 4.2.3 Sandy uplands; 4.2.4 Wetlands; 4.2.5 River valleys; 4.3 Uplands and wetlands: contrasting contexts; 4.3.1 Preservation of artefacts.
- 4.3.2 Preservation of features4.3.3 Upland Bergschenhoek; 4.3.4 Artefacts, features and information; 4.3.5 Spatio-temporal patterning; 4.3.5.1 Vertical displacement of artefacts; 4.3.5.2 Horizontal displacement of artefacts; 4.3.5.3 Erosion, colluviation, slope effects and 'decapitated' sites; 4.3.6 Persistent places and consistent use; 4.3.6.1 Short duration
- direct change; 4.3.6.2 Medium duration
- mobility and the seasonal round; 4.3.6.3 Long duration
- persistent places; 4.3.6.4 Dealing with scales of patterning and disturbance; 4.3.7 A continuum of conditions.
- 4.4 Methodological perspectives4.4.1 Theory for patterning; 4.4.2 Research traditions in investigating Mesolithic and Neolithic sites; 4.4.3 General emphases in excavation practice; 4.4.4 Methodological characteristics of upland and wetland excavations; 4.4.4.1 Artefacts; 4.4.4.2 Features; 4.4.4.3 Chronology and dating; 4.4.4.4 Subsistence, seasonality and ecology; 4.4.4.5 Implications for establishing site-function; 4.4.5 A note on the limits and delimitation of sites; 4.4.6 Retaining a site approach?; 4.4.7 Current Dutch situation; 4.5 An archaeological site typology.
- 4.5.1 Prominent wetland sandy elevations (river dunes)4.5.2 Moderate wetland sandy elevations (coastal dunes and barriers up to c. 1m); 4.5.3 Low elevations (levees and low sandy elevations); 4.5.4 Multiple clusters; 4.5.5 Distorted sites; 4.5.6 Isolated sites and off-site finds; 4.5.7 Using site templates; 4.6 Representativeness; 4.6.1 Qualitative potential; 4.6.2 'They do things differently there?'; 4.6.3 Wetlands as active agents?; Notes; The Late Mesolithic
- diversity in uniformity?; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Chronological and cultural context; 5.2.1 Mesolithic chronology.