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The First Farmers of Central Europe
Diversity in LBK Lifeways
Alasdair Whittle (Editor); Penny Bickle (Editor)
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first
farmers of central Europe, the LBK (Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik),
are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms and location,
landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the
five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be
seen. This major study takes a large regional sample, from northern Hungary
westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley and addresses
the lifeways of developed and late LBK people through aspects of diet, lifetime
mobility, health and physical condition and the presentation of bodies in mortuary
ritual using a combination of isotopic, osteological and archaeological analysis
coupled with a detailed programme of radiocarbon dating.
9781842175309, £48.00, June 2013
HB, 608p, 210 x 297 mm, b/w illustrations, Cardiff Studies in Archaeology, Oxbow Books
Prehistory – Europe
Monuments on the Horizon
The formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd
millennium BC
Quentin Bourgeois (Author)
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In
some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations
such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting
vast areas with hundreds of mounds. These vast barrow landscapes came about
through thousands of years of additions by several successive prehistoric and
historic communities. Yet little is known about how these landscapes developed
and came about. That is what this research set out to do. By unravelling the
histories of specific barrow landscapes in the Low Countries, several distinct
activity phases of intense barrow construction could be recognised. This
publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University
of Leiden.
9789088901041, £32.00, Available Now
PB, 252p, 210 x 280 mm, 78 fc / 74 bw, Sidestone Press
Background to Beakers
Inquiries into the Regional Cultural Background to the Bell Beaker Complex
Harry Fokkens (Editor); Franco Nicolis (Editor)
Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference
of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in September 2010.
The conference brought together thirteen speakers on the subject Beakers in
Transition. Together we explored the background to the Bell beaker complex in
different regions, departing from the idea that migration is not the comprehensive
solution to the adoption of bell Beakers. Therefore we asked the participants
to discuss how in their region Beakers were incorporated in existing cultural
complexes, as one of the manners to understand the processes of innovation
that were undoubtedly part of the Beaker complex. This volume demonstrates
how scholars in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Poland, Switzerland, France,
Morocco even, struggle with the same problems, but have different solutions
everywhere.
9789088900846, £30.00, Available Now
PB, 200p, 49 b/w, 18 col images, 182 x 257mm, Sidestone Press
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