European prehistory : a survey /

European prehistory : a survey /

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Imprint:New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002.
Description:xiii, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Subject:
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe.
Prehistoric peoples -- Europe.
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Prehistoric peoples.
Europe -- Antiquities.
Europe.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4709036
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Other authors / contributors:Milisauskas, Sarunas.
ISBN:0306467933
0306472570 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-437) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Present Environment, A Geographic Summary
  • Introduction
  • Topography
  • Climates
  • Biogeography
  • Some Implications For Human Occupants
  • Chapter 3. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
  • Ice Age Europe: Chronology and Environment
  • The Geological Record
  • The Deep Sea Record
  • Archaeology
  • The Early Europeans: The Biological Record
  • The First Europeans: Homo Erectus
  • Later Forms and the Emergence of Neanderthals
  • Sites and Findspots: The Archaeological Record
  • The Lower Palaeolithic
  • Spotlight on Two Sites
  • Bilzingsleben
  • Terra Amata
  • Lower Palaeolithic Stone Tools and Technology
  • Use of Other Materials in the Lower Palaeolithic
  • Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence and Behavior
  • The Middle Palaeolithic
  • Spotlight on Two Sites
  • La Borde
  • Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
  • Middle Palaeolithic Stone Tools and Technology
  • Use of Other Materials in the Middle Palaeolithic
  • Middle Palaeolithic Subsistence
  • Scavenging or Hunting?
  • Food Procurement and Processing
  • The Question of Cannibalism
  • Middle Palaeolithic Site Organization and Settlement Patterns
  • Middle Palaeolithic Movement and Exchange
  • Burials, Rituals, and Art in the Middle Palaeolithic
  • Chapter 4. The Upper Palaeolithic
  • The Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic
  • Introduction
  • A Simple Version of the Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic
  • The Skeletal Evidence
  • The DNA Evidence
  • The Archaeological Evidence
  • The Aurignacian
  • Other European Archaeological Evidence
  • Summary of the Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic
  • Early Upper Palaeolithic Subsistence
  • Early Upper Palaeolithic Settlement and Exchange
  • The Developed Early Upper Palaeolithic: The Gravettian
  • Spotlight on a Gravettian Site: Pavlov I
  • Gravettian Technology
  • Gravettian Subsistence
  • Gravettian Settlement
  • Gravettian Exchange
  • Gravettian Art and Ornaments
  • Gravettian Burials
  • Europe During the Last Glacial Maximum
  • Western Europe: The Solutrean
  • Spotlight on a Solutrean Site: Solutre
  • Solutrean Subsistence
  • Solutrean Regional Interaction
  • Solutrean Art, Ornaments, and Ritual
  • Southern and Southeastern Europe: The Epigravettian
  • Responses to the Glacial Maximum
  • The Late Glacial Period
  • Western Europe: The Magdalenian
  • Spotlight on a Magdalenian Site: Verberie
  • Magdalenian Subsistence Economies
  • Magdalenian Settlement and Migration
  • Magdalenian Exchange
  • Magdalenian Portable Art
  • Magdalenian Cave Art
  • Magdalenian Ritual and Sanctuaries
  • Magdalenian Burials
  • Complexity in the Magdalenian of the Southwest
  • Southern Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Spotlight on a Site: Mezhirich
  • Complexity on the Russian Plain
  • Northern Europe
  • Summary of the Upper Palaeolithic
  • Chapter 5. The Mesolithic
  • Introduction
  • Postglacial Environmental Changes
  • The Archaeological Record
  • The Early Mesolithic (10,300--8000/7500 BP)
  • Early Mesolithic Technology
  • Spotlight on a Site: Svaerdborg II
  • Early Mesolithic Subsistence
  • Early Mesolithic Settlement
  • Early Mesolithic Exchange
  • Early Mesolithic Burials
  • Early Mesolithic Art and Ornaments
  • Early Mesolithic Summary
  • The Late Mesolithic
  • Late Mesolithic Technology
  • Spotlight on a Site: Vaenget Nord
  • Spotlight of a Very Different Site: Lepenski Vir
  • Late Mesolithic Subsistence
  • Late Mesolithic Settlement
  • Late Mesolithic Exchange
  • Late Mesolithic Art and Ornaments
  • Late Mesolithic Burials
  • Summary of the Mesolithic
  • Chapter 6. Early Neolithic, The First Farmers in Europe, 7000-5500/5000 BC
  • Introduction
  • Early Neolithic Society
  • The Origins and Spread of Farming in Europe
  • The Problem of a Prepottery Neolithic in Europe
  • The Transition to Farming in Central Europe
  • The Earliest Farmers in the Alpine Zone
  • The Transition to Farming Along the Atlantic Coast of Europe
  • Relationship of Farmers to Hunters and Gatherers
  • Subsistence Strategies
  • Central Europe: The Linear Pottery Culture
  • Exchange
  • Settlement Organization--Household, Individual Settlement and Regional Settlement System
  • Economic Specialization By Early Neolithic Settlements and Individuals
  • Population
  • Warfare
  • Social Status: Mortuary Evidence
  • Mortality, Longevity, Sex Ratios, and Population Composition
  • Sociopolitical Organization
  • Rituals and Beliefs
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Middle Neolithic, Continuity, Diversity, Innovations, and Greater Complexity, 5500/5000-3500/3000 BC
  • Introduction
  • Chronology and Cultural Sequence
  • Transition to Farming in the British Isles
  • The Transition to Farming in the Circum-Baltic Region
  • Innovations
  • Milk and Cheese Production
  • Riding and the Domestication of Horses
  • Wool Production
  • The Appearance of Wheeled Vehicles
  • Ards and Plows
  • Beginnings of Metallurgy
  • Subsistence Systems
  • Alpine Region
  • Salt Production
  • Tracks and Roads
  • Flint Mining
  • Exchange
  • Settlement
  • Cups, Beakers and Drinking
  • Megalithic Monuments
  • Warfare
  • The Problem of Writing and Record Keeping
  • The Origin of Complex Societies
  • Gender Differentiation
  • Mortality, Longevity, Sex Ratios, and Population Composition
  • The Iceman or Otzi
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Late Neolithic, Crises, Collapse, New Ideologies, and Economies, 3500/3000-2200/2000 BC
  • Introduction
  • Chronology and Cultural Sequence
  • Subsistence Strategies
  • Settlement Organization
  • Warfare
  • Ritual and Social Organization
  • Ranked Societies
  • The Origin and Dispersal of the Indo-European Speaking Populations
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. The Bronze Age
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Life and Death
  • Settlement Organization
  • Mortuary Data
  • Economic Life
  • Trade and Industry
  • Metals and Metallurgy
  • Raw Materials and Extraction
  • Production and Movement of Metal Goods
  • Craft Production
  • Wood, Bone and Antler
  • Salt
  • Textiles
  • Glass and Faience
  • Transport
  • Land Transport
  • Water Transport
  • Warfare
  • Religion and Ritual
  • Individual and Society
  • The Wider Scene: Territory and Landscape
  • Complex Societies in the Aegean
  • Chapter 10. The Iron Age
  • The Idea of the Iron Age
  • Chronology
  • Economy
  • Trade
  • Warfare
  • Rise of Economic and Political Centers
  • La Tene and Other New Styles
  • Migration and Change
  • Contacts With Literate Societies
  • Linguistic and Ethnic Groups
  • Origins of Urbanism
  • Ritual
  • The Roman Conquest
  • Chapter 11. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
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