The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic

Paper discusses archaeological data of the emergence and development of pastoralism on the Eastern Adriatic coast from social perspective. Formation of pastoralism is placed in the context of social changes within indigenous hunter-gathering communities. Incorporation of sheep into households brough...

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Main Author: Dimitrij Mlekuž
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2005-12-01
Series:Documenta Praehistorica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2158
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description Paper discusses archaeological data of the emergence and development of pastoralism on the Eastern Adriatic coast from social perspective. Formation of pastoralism is placed in the context of social changes within indigenous hunter-gathering communities. Incorporation of sheep into households brought the change in social relations of production and caused fragmentation of communities into independent, mobile households, which did not form complex social structures.
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spelling doaj.art-5fa46579d8964251b872d426029e44862023-01-18T09:21:48ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922005-12-013210.4312/dp.32.2The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern AdriaticDimitrij Mlekuž0Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of LjubljanaPaper discusses archaeological data of the emergence and development of pastoralism on the Eastern Adriatic coast from social perspective. Formation of pastoralism is placed in the context of social changes within indigenous hunter-gathering communities. Incorporation of sheep into households brought the change in social relations of production and caused fragmentation of communities into independent, mobile households, which did not form complex social structures.https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2158pastoralismMesolithicNeolithiceastern Adriatic
spellingShingle Dimitrij Mlekuž
The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
Documenta Praehistorica
pastoralism
Mesolithic
Neolithic
eastern Adriatic
title The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
title_full The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
title_fullStr The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
title_full_unstemmed The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
title_short The ethnography of the Cyclops: Neolithic pastoralists in the eastern Adriatic
title_sort ethnography of the cyclops neolithic pastoralists in the eastern adriatic
topic pastoralism
Mesolithic
Neolithic
eastern Adriatic
url https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2158
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