The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

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 ...

Big men or chiefs?

rondel builders of Neolithic Europe

If there is a feature of the Central European Neolithic period that deserves increased attention of researchers and all those with interest in prehistory, it is circular architecture of the dimensions of many tens of metres, from which only negative imprints of the ditches and ...

Dentro de la mente neolítica

conciencia, cosmos y el mundo de los dioses

Sirviéndose de los estudios y descubrimientos más recientes, los autores relacionan hábilmente la consciencia, la imaginería y los sistemas de creencias humanos para proponer nuevas y estimulantes teorías sobre las causas de una revolución antigua en la cosmología, de los orígenes de la complejidad social ...

Visualising the Neolithic

abstraction, figuration, performance, representation

Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from ...

Ancient mines and quarries

a trans-atlantic perspective

Eds. Margaret Brewer-LaPorta, Adrian Burke, David Field. This volume derives from a meeting on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction ...

Zafrín

un asentamiento del Neolítico antiguo en las Islas Chafarinas (Norte de África, España)

Auts. Manuel A. Rojo Guerra...[et al.] Índice: 9. Introducción 19. Las Islas Chafarinas: el marco geológico y ambiental 31. El Zafrín: un asentamiento Neolítico cardial 129. El Neolítico antiguo en las Islas Chafarinas en su contexto Norteafricano 163. Anexos 259. Bibliografía

Dentro de la mente neolítica

conciencia, cosmos y el mundo de los dioses

Trad. Axel Alonso Valle. Sirviéndose de los estudios y descubrimientos más recientes, los autores relacionan hábilmente la consciencia, la imaginería y los sistemas de creencias humanos para proponer nuevas y estimulantes teorías sobre las causas de una revolución antigua en la cosmología, de los orígenes ...

La invención de la agricultura

por qué el hombre se hizo sedentario

¿Por qué, en la noche de los tiempos, los hombres abandonaron la caza y la recolección y se hicieron sedentarios? ¿Cómo descubrieron el trigo? El profesor Reichholf, biólogo de fama internacional, estudia en este libro el que es, quizás, el mayor enigma de la historia ...

The Bronze Age begins

the ceramics revolution of Early Minoan I and the new forms of wealth that transformed prehistoric society

This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social ...

Heraldry for the dead

memory, identity, and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic Iberia

Contents illustrated ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southwestern Portugal and Spain. About the size of a palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques ...

Mégalithismes insulaires en Méditerranée

dolmens et menhirs de Corse, Sardaigne, Baléares et Malte

contient des illustrations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Les îles de la Méditerranée occidentale - les Baléares, la Corse, la Sardaigne et Malte - possèdent les vestiges de nombreux dolmens, menhirs et statues menhirs. Leur répartition dans le temps et dans l'espace soulève de nombreuses questions. Phénomène général, créations autochtones, ces ...

Lithic technology

measures of production, use, and curation

Ed., William Andrefsky, Jr. Includes bibliographical references and index. The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human ...

The early mediterranean village

agency, material culture, and social change in neolithic Italy

What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC? In this book, John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions (Sicily and Malta). Exploring how the routines of daily ...

Les éclats de Néanderthal

chez les artisans de la préhistoire

Que faisait l'homme de Néandertal avec ses silex taillés? Quels bijoux portaient les femmes de Cro-Magnon ? Comment leurs maris chassaient-ils le renne ? Comment faisait-on la cuisine à cette époque ? Comment l'homme du Néolithique coupait-il un arbre ?... Avec passion et brio, Jean-Luc Piel-Desruisseaux retrace ...

Stonehenge

a new history of the world's greatest stone circle

Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Drawing on forty years of research and fieldwork, archaeologist Aubrey Burl offers a seminal new view of the changing cults and evolving architecture of Stonehenge. Every aspect ...

Concepto y análisis del cambio cultural

su percepción en la materia funeraria del Neolítico y Eneolítico

INDICE: 1.Introducción. 2.Conceptos. 3.Metodología. 4. El cambio cultural del neolítico y Eneolítico del Ebro medio según los datos funerarios. 5. Bibliografía.

(un)settling the Neolithic

This book takes a fresh look at the European Neolithic and asks pertinent questions about the way in which we study it. By unsettling accepted notions regarding sedentism and the onset of farming, the contributors are able to sow that many ideas which are taken ...

First farmers

the origins of agricultural societies

La evolución de las sociedades

desde los grupos cazadores-recolectores al estado agrario

Traditions funeraires neolithiques en France meridionale

(6000-2200 avant J.-C.)