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
Alasdair Whittle's work on Neolithic Europe has resisted characterisation of early farming as monolithic, conservative and unchanging, highlighting instead its mutability and fundamentally social nature. His research also pays close attention to the importance of chronology for understanding th...
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| description | Alasdair Whittle's work on Neolithic Europe has resisted characterisation of early farming as monolithic, conservative and unchanging, highlighting instead its mutability and fundamentally social nature. His research also pays close attention to the importance of chronology for understanding the pace and rhythm of social processes during the Neolithic. In this paper we assess the potential of archaeobotanical and fauna data for investigating the creation and contingency of Neolithic landscapes in the western loess belt and Alpine foreland. Drawing on contrasting landscapes and settlement types that lend themselves to different forms of bioarchaeological and chronological inference, we argue that ‘dryland’ loess and ‘wetland’ lakeshore sequences offer complementary perspectives on broad social processes of adjustment to the ecological potentials and constraints of small-scale farming and herding. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ec5a3286-4e2b-4ea8-a9eb-f41cd1affbba2022-03-27T11:16:49ZTowards 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 forelandBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248uuid:ec5a3286-4e2b-4ea8-a9eb-f41cd1affbbaSymplectic Elements at OxfordOxbow Books2017Bogaard, AJacomet, SSchibler, JAlasdair Whittle's work on Neolithic Europe has resisted characterisation of early farming as monolithic, conservative and unchanging, highlighting instead its mutability and fundamentally social nature. His research also pays close attention to the importance of chronology for understanding the pace and rhythm of social processes during the Neolithic. In this paper we assess the potential of archaeobotanical and fauna data for investigating the creation and contingency of Neolithic landscapes in the western loess belt and Alpine foreland. Drawing on contrasting landscapes and settlement types that lend themselves to different forms of bioarchaeological and chronological inference, we argue that ‘dryland’ loess and ‘wetland’ lakeshore sequences offer complementary perspectives on broad social processes of adjustment to the ecological potentials and constraints of small-scale farming and herding. |
| spellingShingle | Bogaard, A Jacomet, S Schibler, J 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 |
| title | 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | 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 |
| title_sort | 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 |
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