The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

Edited by Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann

Abstract

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed study of the European Neolithic from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta. Drawing on contributions representing different archaeological traditions and perspectives, it covers the period from c. 6500 BC, when a Neolithic lifestyle is identified in parts of Greece, to c. 2500 BC, when it reaches northernmost Europe. Given this broad chronological frame, the book also touches on many ‘Mesolithic’, ‘Chalcolithic’, or even ‘Bronze Age’ societies, and the way in which they co-existed and interacted with ‘Neolithic’ societies. It explores the significance of environmental factors and demography in the spread of the Neolithic, as well as the roles played by ‘indigenous’ communities and ‘migrating’ farmers. It also considers the different scales and kinds of migration and other mechanisms of diffusion, from inter-marriage over several generations to the movement of entire communities in one season, and ends with three commentaries which develop key debates for Neolithic studies. The evidence presented in this book reflects the strength and diversity of Neolithic archaeology across Europe.

Keywords: Europe, Neolithic, Iberia, Malta, demography, indigenous communities, farmers, migration, inter-marriage, archaeology

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Mar 2015

ISBN:: 9780199545841

Published online:: Dec 2014

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.001.0001

Editors

Chris Fowler, editor
Chris Fowler is a Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach (Routledge, 2004) and numerous publications on mortuary practices and monuments in the Neolithic of the geographical British Isles and/or archaeological studies of bodies and personhood. He is currently applying a relational approach to the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary archaeology of Northeast England.

Jan Harding, editor
Jan Harding, Newcastle University.

Daniela Hofmann, editor
Daniela Hofmann, Hamburg University.

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Front Matter
Part I Introduction
- The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe: An IntroductionChris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann
Part II Mobility, Change, and Interaction at the Large Scale
- Environments and Landscape ChangeTony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore
- Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People
  - Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People in South-East EuropeJohannes Müller
  - The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian PeninsulaJean Guilaine
  - Central and Eastern EuropeWolfram Schier
  - Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western EuropeAnne Tresset
  - Language, Genes, and Cultural InteractionStephen Shennan
- Sequences of Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change
  - The Balkan Neolithic and ChalcolithicJohn Chapman
  - The Neolithic in Mediterranean EuropeCaroline Malone
  - Early Neolithic Manifestations in Central and Eastern EuropeDetlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov
  - The Atlantic Mesolithic–Neolithic TransitionNick Thorpe
Part III Neolithic Worlds and Neolithic Lifeways
- Houses, Habitation, and Community
  - Settlements in South-East EuropePál Raczky
  - Domestic Space in the MediterraneanDemetra Papaconstantinou
  - Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European NeolithicJonathan Last
  - Lakeside Dwellings in the Circum Alpine RegionFrancesco Menotti
  - The Bandkeramik Longhouses: A Material, Social, and Mental Metaphor for Small-Scale Sedentary SocietiesAnick Coudart
  - Houses, Halls, and Occupation in Britain and IrelandKenneth Brophy
  - Places of Settlement in Southern ScandinaviaMats Larsson
- Subsistence and Social Routine
  - Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and VariationRick Schulting
  - Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern EuropeAmy Bogaard and Paul Halstead
  - Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern EuropeLászló Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lillie
  - Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern EuropePeter Rowley-Conwy and Tony Legge
  - The Neolithic YearDimitrij Mlekuž
  - Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British IslesRoy Loveday
- Materiality and Social Relations
  - Invention and European Knapping TraditionsMarjorie de Grooth
  - Shared Labour and Large-Scale Action: European Flint MiningMarta Capote and Pedro Díaz-del-Río
  - Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic EuropeGabriel Cooney
  - Pots and Potters in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition in South-East EuropeMihael Budja
  - Linearbandkeramik Pottery and SocietyJoachim Pechtl
  - Ceramics and Society in Northern EuropeJohannes Müller and Rick Peterson
  - Bell Beaker Pottery and SocietyMarc Vander Linden
  - A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East EuropeStratos Nanoglou
  - Spondylus Gaederopus/Glycymeris Exchange Networks in the European Neolithic and ChalcolithicJohn Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
  - AmberTony Axelsson, Morten Ramstad, and Anders Strinnholm
  - The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social PowerVolker Heyd and Katharine Walker
  - Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western MediterraneanMartin Bartelheim and Mark Pearce
  - Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern EuropeBenjamin W. Roberts and Catherine J. Frieman
  - Deposition in PitsDuncan Garrow
  - Animals and Social RelationsArkadiusz Marciniak and Joshua Pollard
- Monuments, Rock Art, and Cosmology
  - Central European EnclosuresJörg Petrasch
  - Italian EnclosuresRobin Skeates
  - Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western EuropeNiels H. Andersen
  - Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Western and Northern EuropeVicki Cummings, Magdalena S. Midgley, and Chris Scarre
  - Neolithic Rock Art in IberiaSara Fairén-Jiménez
  - The Rock Art Tradition of Valcamonica–Valtellina During the Neolithic PeriodAngelo Eugenio Fossati
  - Rock Art and the Rock Surface: Neolithic Rock Art Traditions of Britain, Ireland, and Northernmost EuropeAndrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones, and Kalle Sognnes
  - Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean NeolithicRobin Skeates
  - A Place in the Cosmos: Celestial Bodies and the Passage Graves of Western EuropeMichael Hoskin
- Death, Bodies, and Persons
  - Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early–Middle Copper Age of South-East EuropeDušan Borić
  - Burial and Human Body Representations in the Mediterranean NeolithicJohn Robb
  - Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central EuropeDaniela Hofmann and Jörg Orschiedt
  - Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Northern EuropeKarl-Göran Sjögren
  - Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West EuropeChris Fowler and Chris Scarre
Part IV Conclusion: Debates in Neolithic Archaeology
- Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central EuropeAlasdair Whittle
- Commentary: What Do We Mean by ‘Neolithic Societies’?Julian Thomas
- The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of Bronze Age SocietyKristian Kristiansen
End Matter
- Author Index
- Subject Index

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The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

Edited by Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann

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