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The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe : mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC /

Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prieto Martínez, M. Pilar (Editor ), Salanova, Laure (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1. Introduction. A Folk who will never speak: Bell Beakers and linguistics; 2. Bell Beakers and Corded Ware people in the Little Poland Upland
  • an anthropological point of view; 3. Personal identity and social structure of Bell Beakers: the Upper Basins of the Oder and Vistula Rivers; 4. Bell Beaker stone wrist-guards as symbolic male ornament. The significance of ceremonial warfarein 3rd millennium BC central Europe; 5. The earlier Bell Beakers: migrations to Britain and Ireland; 6. Bell Beakers
  • chronology, innovation and memory: a multivariate approach
  • 7. The long-house as a transforming agent. Emergent complexity in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age southern Scandinavia 2300-1300 BC 8. Expanding 3rd millennium transformations: Norway; 9. The Bell Beaker Complex: a vector of transformations? Stabilities and changes of the indigenous cultures in south-east France at the end of the Neolithic Period; 10. The dagger phenomenon: circulation from the Grand-Pressigny region (France, Indre-et-Loire) in western Europe; 11. Long-distance contacts: north-west Iberia during the 3rd millennium BC
  • 12. Early gold technology as an indicator of circulation processes in Atlantic Europe13. Environmental changes in north-western Iberia around the Bell Beaker period (2800-1400 cal BC); 14. Evidence of agriculture and livestock. The palynological record from the middle Ebro valley (Iberian Peninsula) during the 3rd and 2nd millennia cal. BC; 15. Bell Beaker pottery as a symbolic marker of property rights: the case of the salt production centre of Molino Sanchón II , Zamora, Spain
  • 16. Exploring social networks through Bell Beaker contexts in the central Valencia region from recentdiscoveries at La Vital (Gandía, Valencia, Spain) 17. Dynamism and complexity of the funerary models: the north-west Iberian peninsuladuring the 3rd-2nd millennia BC; 18. Concluding remarks