Living on the lake in prehistoric Europe : 150 years of lake-dwelling research /

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Imprint:	New York : Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Europe. Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) -- Europe. Underwater archaeology -- Europe. Antiquities. Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings. Underwater archaeology. Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) Europe -- Antiquities. Europe. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302496

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Other authors / contributors:	Menotti, Francesco.
ISBN:	9781134371808 1134371802 1280047186 9781280047183
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	The chance discovery in 1854 of a prehistoric lake village on Lake Zurich triggered what we now call the - 'lake-dwelling phenomenon'. One hundred and fifty years of research and animated academic disputes have transformed the phenomenon into one of the most reliable sources of information in wetland archaeology. This definitive volume provides an overview of the development of lake village studies, explores the impact of a range of scientific techniques on the settlements and considers how the public can relate to this evocative and exciting branch of archaeology. It explains how the multidisciplinary research context has significantly improved our knowledge of prehistoric wetland communities, from an environmental as well as a cultural perspective.

Table of Contents:

Preliminaries
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
1 Lake dwelling studies in Switzerland since Meilen 1854
2 Lake-dwellings in south-western Germany
3 Lake dwelling research in France from climate to demography
4 Prehistoric lacustrine villages on the Austrian lakes
5 Past and present lake-dwelling studies in Slovenia
6 150 years of lake dwelling research in northern Italy
7 The development of wetland archaeology in Britain
8 Dendrochronology in lake dwelling research
9 The contribution of palaeoclimatology to the lake dwellings
10 Bones as a key for reconstructing
11 Archaeobotany a vital tool in the investigation of lake dwellings
12 Underwater archaeology lake dwellings below the water surface
13 Wetland archaeology and computers
14 Displacement readaptation and cultural continuity a lake dwelling perspective
15 Lake dwelling museums academic research and public information
16 Experimental and applied archaeology in lake dwelling research
17 Crossing the boundaries
Conclusions
Index.

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