Economy and society in prehistoric Europe : changing perspectives /

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Author / Creator:Sherratt, Andrew. 1946-2006
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
Description:xiii, 561 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2757874
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ISBN:0691016976 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 506-551) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Changing Perspectives on European Prehistory
  • Sect. I. Cycles of Interpretation
  • 1. V. Gordon Childe: Archaeology and Intellectual History (1989)
  • Sect. II. Ecological Imperatives?
  • 2. Socio-economic and Demographic Models for Later Prehistoric Europe (1972)
  • 3. Water, Soil and Seasonality in Early Cereal Cultivation (1980)
  • 4. Resources, Technology and Trade: An Essay on Early European Metallurgy (1976)
  • 5. Social Evolution: Europe in the Later Neolithic and Copper Ages (1984)
  • Sect. III. Discovering the Secondary Products Complex
  • 6. Plough and Pastoralism: Aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution (1981)
  • 7. The Secondary Exploitation of Animals in the Old World (1983, revised)
  • 8. Wool, Wheels and Ploughmarks: Local Developments or Outside Introductions in Neolithic Europe? (1987)
  • 9. Two New Finds of Wooden Wheels from Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe (1986)
  • Sect. IV. Patterns on the Ground
  • 10. Mobile Resources: Settlement and Exchange in Early Agricultural Europe (1982)
  • 11. The Development of Neolithic and Copper Age Settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain
  • I. The Regional Setting (1983)
  • II. Site Survey and Settlement Dynamics (1984)
  • 12. Neolithic Exchange Systems in Central Europe, 6000-3500 BC (1987)
  • 13. The Genesis of Megaliths Monumentality, Ethnicity and Social Complexity in Neolithic North-West Europe (1990)
  • 14. Instruments of Conversion? The Role of Megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe (1995)
  • Sect. V. Invisible Flows: Languages, Culture and Drugs
  • 15. Cups that Cheered: The Introduction of Alcohol to Prehistoric Europe (1987)
  • 16. Sacred and Profane Substances: The Ritual Use of Narcotics in Later Neolithic Europe (1991)
  • 17. Metal Vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the Context of Vulchetrun
  • 18. Troy, Maikop, Altyn Depe: Early Bronze Age Urbanism and its Periphery (1991)
  • 19. The Archaeology of Indo-European: An Alternative View
  • Sect. VI. A Conversation with Childe
  • 20. Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong? (1995)
  • Bibliography
  • Index