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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163909503321

Autore

Noble Gordon

Titolo

Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe : the forest as ancestor / / Gordon Noble [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-316-71923-5

1-316-72283-X

1-316-72343-7

1-316-67200-X

1-316-72403-4

1-316-72643-6

1-316-72463-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

936.8

Soggetti

Neolithic period - Europe, Northern

Agriculture, Prehistoric - Europe, Northern

Forests and forestry - Europe, Northern

Europe, Northern Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Apr 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction: engaging with the environment; 2. The forest in the Neolithic of northern Europe; 3. Altering the environment; 4. The woodland landscape; 5. The forest as architecture; 6. The environment as ancestor: timber monumentality; 7. Extending roots: conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Neolithic period is one of the great transformations in human history - when agriculture first began and dramatic changes occurred in human society. These changes occurred in environments that were radically different to those that exist today, and in northern Europe many landscapes would have been dominated by woodland. Yet wood and woodland rarely figures in the minds of many archaeologists, and it plays no part in the traditional Three Age system that has defined the frameworks of European prehistory. This book explores how human-



environment relations altered with the beginnings of farming, and how the Neolithic in northern Europe was made possible through new ways of living in and understanding the environment. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, from pollen data and stone axes to the remains of timber monuments and settlements, the book analyzes the relationship between people, their material culture, and their woodland environment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164876503321

Titolo

Biosphere to lithosphere : new studies in vertebrate taphonomy : proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002 / / edited by Terry O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-78297-917-4

1-78297-919-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

566

Soggetti

Taphonomy

Animal remains (Archaeology)

Vertebrates, Fossil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland / Kerstin Pasda -- Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes / Mariana Mondini -- Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages : new criteria for their distinction / Véronique Laroulandie -- Owls, diurnal raptors and humans : signatures on avian bones / Zbigniew Bochenski -- Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations / Jim Williams -- Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel. Experimental data and archaeological applications /



Sandrine Costamagno ... [et al.] -- Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits : implications for interpretation / Fay Worley -- Microfossils in camelid dung : taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism / M. Alejandra Korstanje -- Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy / Eva-Maria Geigl -- Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis / Robert Symmons -- Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) / Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi -- Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study / Miriam Belmaker -- Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Guy Bar-Oz ... [et al.] -- Bone weathering and food procurement strategies : assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences / Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou -- Social changes in the early European Neolithic: a taphonomy perspective / Arkadiusz Marciniak.