Neolithic Farming in Central Europe

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe
Author: Amy Bogaard
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415324854

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This book evaluates competing models of early crop husbandry in Central Europe using available archaeobotanical evidence.

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe
Author: Amy Bogaard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134344570

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Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. Debate surrounding the nature of crop husbandry in Neolithic central Europe has focussed on the permanence of cultivation, its intensity and its seasonality: variables that carry different implications for Neolithic society. Amy Bogaard reviews the archaeological evidence for four major competing models of Neolithic crop husbandry - shifting cultivation, extensive plough cultivation, floodplain cultivation and intensive garden cultivation - and evaluates charred crop and weed assemblages. Her conclusions identify the most appropriate model of cultivation, and highlight the consequences of these agricultural practices for our understanding of Neolithic societies in central Europe.

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe
Author: Amy Bogaard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134344589

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Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. Debate surrounding the nature of crop husbandry in Neolithic central Europe has focussed on the permanence of cultivation, its intensity and its seasonality: variables that carry different implications for Neolithic society. Amy Bogaard reviews the archaeological evidence for four major competing models of Neolithic crop husbandry - shifting cultivation, extensive plough cultivation, floodplain cultivation and intensive garden cultivation - and evaluates charred crop and weed assemblages. Her conclusions identify the most appropriate model of cultivation, and highlight the consequences of these agricultural practices for our understanding of Neolithic societies in central Europe.

The First Farmers of Europe

The First Farmers of Europe
Author: Stephen Shennan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108397301

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Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by archaeologists, geneticists and other archaeological scientists. He shows that it resulted from a population expansion from present-day Turkey. Using ideas from the disciplines of human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution, he explains how this process took place. The expansion was not the result of 'population pressure' but of the opportunities for increased fertility by colonising new regions that farming offered. The knowledge and resources for the farming 'niche' were passed on from parents to their children. However, Shennan demonstrates that the demographic patterns associated with the spread of farming resulted in population booms and busts, not continuous expansion.

Europe's First Farmers

Europe's First Farmers
Author: T. Douglas Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2000-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521665728

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Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
Author: Chris Fowler
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0191666882

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The Neolithic —a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe—has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which research is carried out, and the way research traditions in different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic —from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta —offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work in the field.

Forest Farmers and Stockherders

Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Author: Peter Bogucki
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521329590

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Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, this book explores the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000-3000 BC.

European Prehistory

European Prehistory
Author: Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461507510

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Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire. In 1978, the Academic Press published my book European Prehistory which, typically for that period, emphasized cultural evolution, culture process, technology, environment, and economy. To produce a new version and an up- to-date prehistory of Europe, I have invited contributions from specialists in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Thus while this version of European Prehistory is a new book, however, it still incorporates some data from the 1978 version, particularly in The Present Environment and Neolithic chapters. Like its predecessor, this edition is structured around selected general topics, such as technology, trade, settlement, warfare, and ritual.

Farmers at the Frontier

Farmers at the Frontier
Author: Kurt J Gron
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789251435

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All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the start of farming on the continent because it means that ultimately, domesticated plants and animals came from somewhere else, and from someone else. In an area as vast as Europe, the process by which food production becomes the predominant subsistence strategy is of course highly variable, but in a sense the outcome is the same, and has the potential for addressing more large-scale questions regarding agricultural origins. Therefore, a detailed understanding of all aspects of farming in its absolute earliest form in various regions of Europe can potentially provide a new perspective on the mechanisms by which this monumental change comes to human societies and regions. In this volume, we aim to collect various perspectives regarding the earliest farming from across Europe. Methodological approaches, archaeological cultures, and geographic locations in Europe are variable, but all papers engage with the simple question: What was the earliest farming like? This volume opens a conversation about agriculture just after the transition in order to address the role incoming people, technologies, and adaptations have in secondary adoptions. The book starts with an introduction by the editors which will serve to contextualize the theme of the volume. The broad arguments concerning the process of neolithisation are addressed, and the rationale for the volume discussed. Contributions are ordered geographically and chronologically, given the progression of the Neolithic across Europe. The editors conclude the volume with a short commentary paper regarding the theme of the volume.

Animal Production Systems in Neolithic Central Europe

Animal Production Systems in Neolithic Central Europe
Author: Margaret Glass
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Based on a Calgary doctoral thesis this study investigates the variability in faunal assemblages from both Bandkeramik and later Neolithic settlements over a wide area of central Europe. A discussion of the interpretation of the Neolithic economy is followed by analyses of faunal assemblages, investigation of the patterns of species dominance and hypotheses about domestic animal production.