Economy and society in prehistoric Europe : changing perspectives /: changing perspectives. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Sherratt.
• Other Names: Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006
• Contents: Sec. 1. Cycles of interpretation: V. Gordon Childe : archaeology and intellectual history -- sec. 2. Ecological imperatives?: Socio-economic and demographic models for later prehistoric Europe ; Water, soil and seasonality in early cereal cultivation ; Resources, technology and trade : an essay on early European metallurgy ; Social evolution : Europe and the Later Neolithic and Copper Ages -- sec. 3. Discovering the secondary products complex: Plough and pastoralism : aspects of the secondary products revolution ; The secondary exploitation of animals in the Old World ; Wool, wheels and ploughmarks : local developments or outside introductions in Neolithic Europe? ; Two new finds of wooden wheels from Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe -- sec. 4. Patterns on the ground: Mobile resources : settlement and exchange in early agricultural Europe ; The development of Neolithic and Copper Age settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain: The regional setting. Site survey and settlement dynamics ; Neolitthic exchange systems in Central Europe, 6000-3500 BC ; The genesis of megaliths : monumentality, ethnicity and social complexity in Neolithic North-West Europe ; Instruments of conversion? : the role of megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in North-West Europe -- sec. 5. Invisible flows : languages, culture and drugs: Cups that cheered : the introduction of alcohol to prehistoric Europe ; Sacred and profane substances : the ritual use of narcotics in Later Neolithic Europe ; Metal vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the context of Vulchetrun / with T. Taylor ; troy, maikop, Altyn Depe : early Bronze Age urbanism and its periphery ; The archaeology of Indo-European : an alternative view / with E.S. Sherratt -- sec. 6. A conversation with Childe: Gordon Childe : right or wrong?
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 1997
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 561 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 936; Prehistoric peoples -- Europe; Economics, Prehistoric -- Europe; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; HISTORY / Europe / General; Antiquities; Economics, Prehistoric; Prehistoric peoples; Hominidés fossiles -- Europe; Économie préhistorique -- Europe; Préhistoire -- Europe; Economie; Maatschappij; Prehistorie; Europe -- Antiquities; Europe; Europe -- Antiquités préhistorique; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474472562; 1474472567
• Related ISBNs: 9780748606467; 0748606467
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-551) and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.