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Title The Neolithic of Europe : papers in honour of Alasdair Whittle / edited by Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings, Daniela Hofmann, and Joshua Pollard.
Publisher Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.



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Contents Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Tabula gratulatoria; 1. Introduction: Alasdair Whittle and the Neolithic of Europe Joshua Pollard, Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings and Daniela Hofmann; 2. 'Very like the Neolithic': the everyday and settlement in the European Neolithic Penny Bickle and Evita Kalogiropoulou; 3. The end of the tells: the Iron Age 'Neolithic' in the central and northern Aegean James Whitley.
4. Encounters in the watery realm: early to mid-Holocene geochronologies of Lower Danube human-river interactions Steve Mills, Mark Macklin and Pavel Mirea5. Buried in mud, buried in clay: specially arranged settlement burials from in and around the Danubian Sárköz, Neolithic southern Hungary Eszter Bánffy, János Jakucs, Kitti Köhler, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Anett Osztás; 6. The chosen ones: unconventional burials at Polgár-Csőszhalom (north-east Hungary) from the fifth millennium cal BC Pál Raczky and Alexandra Anders.
7. A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: south-east Europe and Britain/Ireland Rick Schulting and Dušan Borić8. Stag do: ritual implications of antler use in prehistory László Bartosiewicz, Alice M. Choyke and Ffion Reynolds; 9. Towards an integrated bioarchaeological perspective on the central European Neolithic: understanding the pace and rhythm of social processes through comparative discussion of the western loess belt and Alpine foreland Amy Bogaard, Stefanie Jacomet and Jörg Schibler.
10. Size matters? Exploring exceptional buildings in the central European early Neolithic Daniela Hofmann and Eva Lenneis11. Feasts and sacrifices: fifth millennium 'pseudo-ditch' causewayed enclosures from the southern Upper Rhine valley Philippe Lefranc, Anthony Denaire and Rose-Marie Arbogast; 12. From Neolithic kings to the Staffordshire hoard. Hoards and aristocratic graves in the European Neolithic: the birth of a 'Barbarian' Europe? Christian Jeunesse.
13. Sudden time? Natural disasters as a stimulus to monument building, from Silbury Hill (Great Britain) to Antequera (Spain) Richard Bradley and Leonardo García Sanjuán14. Art in the making: Neolithic societies in Britain, Ireland and Iberia Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Cochrane and Marta Diaz-Guardamino; 15. Community building: houses and people in Neolithic Britain Alistair J. Barclay and Oliver J.T. Harris; 16. Passage graves as material technologies of wrapping Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards.
ISBN 9781785706554 (electronic bk.)
1785706551 (electronic bk.)
9781785706578 (electronic bk.)
1785706578 (electronic bk.)
9781785706561
178570656X
9781785706547 (hardcover)
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Subject Whittle, A. W. R.
Neolithic period -- Europe.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe.
Human settlements -- Europe.
Social archaeology -- Europe.
Europe -- Antiquities.
Alt author Bickle, Penny, editor.
Cummings, Vicki, editor.
Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
Pollard, Joshua, editor.
Whittle, A. W. R., honouree.
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Contents Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Tabula gratulatoria; 1. Introduction: Alasdair Whittle and the Neolithic of Europe Joshua Pollard, Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings and Daniela Hofmann; 2. 'Very like the Neolithic': the everyday and settlement in the European Neolithic Penny Bickle and Evita Kalogiropoulou; 3. The end of the tells: the Iron Age 'Neolithic' in the central and northern Aegean James Whitley.
4. Encounters in the watery realm: early to mid-Holocene geochronologies of Lower Danube human-river interactions Steve Mills, Mark Macklin and Pavel Mirea5. Buried in mud, buried in clay: specially arranged settlement burials from in and around the Danubian Sárköz, Neolithic southern Hungary Eszter Bánffy, János Jakucs, Kitti Köhler, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Anett Osztás; 6. The chosen ones: unconventional burials at Polgár-Csőszhalom (north-east Hungary) from the fifth millennium cal BC Pál Raczky and Alexandra Anders.
7. A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: south-east Europe and Britain/Ireland Rick Schulting and Dušan Borić8. Stag do: ritual implications of antler use in prehistory László Bartosiewicz, Alice M. Choyke and Ffion Reynolds; 9. Towards an integrated bioarchaeological perspective on the central European Neolithic: understanding the pace and rhythm of social processes through comparative discussion of the western loess belt and Alpine foreland Amy Bogaard, Stefanie Jacomet and Jörg Schibler.
10. Size matters? Exploring exceptional buildings in the central European early Neolithic Daniela Hofmann and Eva Lenneis11. Feasts and sacrifices: fifth millennium 'pseudo-ditch' causewayed enclosures from the southern Upper Rhine valley Philippe Lefranc, Anthony Denaire and Rose-Marie Arbogast; 12. From Neolithic kings to the Staffordshire hoard. Hoards and aristocratic graves in the European Neolithic: the birth of a 'Barbarian' Europe? Christian Jeunesse.
13. Sudden time? Natural disasters as a stimulus to monument building, from Silbury Hill (Great Britain) to Antequera (Spain) Richard Bradley and Leonardo García Sanjuán14. Art in the making: Neolithic societies in Britain, Ireland and Iberia Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Cochrane and Marta Diaz-Guardamino; 15. Community building: houses and people in Neolithic Britain Alistair J. Barclay and Oliver J.T. Harris; 16. Passage graves as material technologies of wrapping Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards.
ISBN 9781785706554 (electronic bk.)
1785706551 (electronic bk.)
9781785706578 (electronic bk.)
1785706578 (electronic bk.)
9781785706561
178570656X
9781785706547 (hardcover)
Subject Whittle, A. W. R.
Neolithic period -- Europe.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe.
Human settlements -- Europe.
Social archaeology -- Europe.
Europe -- Antiquities.
Alt author Bickle, Penny, editor.
Cummings, Vicki, editor.
Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
Pollard, Joshua, editor.
Whittle, A. W. R., honouree.

Subject Whittle, A. W. R.
Neolithic period -- Europe.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe.
Human settlements -- Europe.
Social archaeology -- Europe.
Europe -- Antiquities.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Tabula gratulatoria; 1. Introduction: Alasdair Whittle and the Neolithic of Europe Joshua Pollard, Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings and Daniela Hofmann; 2. 'Very like the Neolithic': the everyday and settlement in the European Neolithic Penny Bickle and Evita Kalogiropoulou; 3. The end of the tells: the Iron Age 'Neolithic' in the central and northern Aegean James Whitley.
4. Encounters in the watery realm: early to mid-Holocene geochronologies of Lower Danube human-river interactions Steve Mills, Mark Macklin and Pavel Mirea5. Buried in mud, buried in clay: specially arranged settlement burials from in and around the Danubian Sárköz, Neolithic southern Hungary Eszter Bánffy, János Jakucs, Kitti Köhler, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Anett Osztás; 6. The chosen ones: unconventional burials at Polgár-Csőszhalom (north-east Hungary) from the fifth millennium cal BC Pál Raczky and Alexandra Anders.
7. A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: south-east Europe and Britain/Ireland Rick Schulting and Dušan Borić8. Stag do: ritual implications of antler use in prehistory László Bartosiewicz, Alice M. Choyke and Ffion Reynolds; 9. Towards an integrated bioarchaeological perspective on the central European Neolithic: understanding the pace and rhythm of social processes through comparative discussion of the western loess belt and Alpine foreland Amy Bogaard, Stefanie Jacomet and Jörg Schibler.
10. Size matters? Exploring exceptional buildings in the central European early Neolithic Daniela Hofmann and Eva Lenneis11. Feasts and sacrifices: fifth millennium 'pseudo-ditch' causewayed enclosures from the southern Upper Rhine valley Philippe Lefranc, Anthony Denaire and Rose-Marie Arbogast; 12. From Neolithic kings to the Staffordshire hoard. Hoards and aristocratic graves in the European Neolithic: the birth of a 'Barbarian' Europe? Christian Jeunesse.
13. Sudden time? Natural disasters as a stimulus to monument building, from Silbury Hill (Great Britain) to Antequera (Spain) Richard Bradley and Leonardo García Sanjuán14. Art in the making: Neolithic societies in Britain, Ireland and Iberia Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Cochrane and Marta Diaz-Guardamino; 15. Community building: houses and people in Neolithic Britain Alistair J. Barclay and Oliver J.T. Harris; 16. Passage graves as material technologies of wrapping Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards.
Alt author Bickle, Penny, editor.
Cummings, Vicki, editor.
Hofmann, Daniela, editor.
Pollard, Joshua, editor.
Whittle, A. W. R., honouree.
ISBN 9781785706554 (electronic bk.)
1785706551 (electronic bk.)
9781785706578 (electronic bk.)
1785706578 (electronic bk.)
9781785706561
178570656X
9781785706547 (hardcover)

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