Author: Magdalena S. Midgley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
"This is the first major synthesis of the TRB (Trichterrandbecher - funnel-necked beaker) culture, one of the most extensive cultural patterns in the European prehistory of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The TRB culture covers a vast geographical area stretching from South East Poland to the Netherlands, and from Southern Scandinavia to Bohemia and Moravia. Consequently, it presents enormous difficulties to scholars trying to build an overall picture of the culture and its significance: difficulties of language, of the scale of the subject and of the amount of material to be assimilated and assessed. In this book, Magdalena Midgley manages the impressive task of bringing together evidence from the whole North European Plain, including new material published in German, Danish, Dutch, Polish and Russian. It gives the student and the professional archaeologist an up-to-date guide to the basic subject matter from an international perspective, as well as offering an evaluation of the views of other scholars whose findings are not available in English."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
TRB Culture
Author: Magdalena S. Midgley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
"This is the first major synthesis of the TRB (Trichterrandbecher - funnel-necked beaker) culture, one of the most extensive cultural patterns in the European prehistory of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The TRB culture covers a vast geographical area stretching from South East Poland to the Netherlands, and from Southern Scandinavia to Bohemia and Moravia. Consequently, it presents enormous difficulties to scholars trying to build an overall picture of the culture and its significance: difficulties of language, of the scale of the subject and of the amount of material to be assimilated and assessed. In this book, Magdalena Midgley manages the impressive task of bringing together evidence from the whole North European Plain, including new material published in German, Danish, Dutch, Polish and Russian. It gives the student and the professional archaeologist an up-to-date guide to the basic subject matter from an international perspective, as well as offering an evaluation of the views of other scholars whose findings are not available in English."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
"This is the first major synthesis of the TRB (Trichterrandbecher - funnel-necked beaker) culture, one of the most extensive cultural patterns in the European prehistory of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The TRB culture covers a vast geographical area stretching from South East Poland to the Netherlands, and from Southern Scandinavia to Bohemia and Moravia. Consequently, it presents enormous difficulties to scholars trying to build an overall picture of the culture and its significance: difficulties of language, of the scale of the subject and of the amount of material to be assimilated and assessed. In this book, Magdalena Midgley manages the impressive task of bringing together evidence from the whole North European Plain, including new material published in German, Danish, Dutch, Polish and Russian. It gives the student and the professional archaeologist an up-to-date guide to the basic subject matter from an international perspective, as well as offering an evaluation of the views of other scholars whose findings are not available in English."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The TRB West Group
Author: Jan Albert Bakker
Publisher: Sidestone Press
ISBN: 908890023X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A classic study of the pottery of the TRB West group, originally published in 1979. Bakker deals with the research history and typochronology of the TRB pottery. Also he gives a detailed account of the other TRB finds such as flint and stone artefacts and of course the most important TRB sites. Over the years this book has become a standard-work for anyone who is interested in hunebeds and their makers. The author has written a new introduction to this reprint in which he describes how the book of 1979 came together and the research that has been carried out since then.
Publisher: Sidestone Press
ISBN: 908890023X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A classic study of the pottery of the TRB West group, originally published in 1979. Bakker deals with the research history and typochronology of the TRB pottery. Also he gives a detailed account of the other TRB finds such as flint and stone artefacts and of course the most important TRB sites. Over the years this book has become a standard-work for anyone who is interested in hunebeds and their makers. The author has written a new introduction to this reprint in which he describes how the book of 1979 came together and the research that has been carried out since then.
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964985
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964985
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field.
The Megaliths of Northern Europe
Author: Magdalena Midgley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134264496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. The Megaliths of Northern Europe provides a much needed up-to-date synthesis of the material available on these monuments, incorporating the results of recent research in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. This research has brought to light new data on the construction of the megaliths and their role in the cultural landscape, and Magdalena Midgley offers a fascinating interpretation of the symbolism of megalithic tombs within the context of early farming communities. This wealth of new evidence suggests the Northern European megaliths were important foci in the wider north-west European context. The construction of dolmens and passage graves, using huge glacial boulders, demanded both great communal effort and considerable skill. In addition to this technical expertise the master builders also made use of their esoteric knowledge of rituals. This was expressed in the use of exotic building materials and special architectural features, and in the placement of tombs within the natural and cultural landscapes, creating new metaphors and images. Fully illustrated, this book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of European Prehistory, Archaeology and Prehistoric Anthropology, as well as architects who study ancient architecture and social anthropologists who study modern megaliths.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134264496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. The Megaliths of Northern Europe provides a much needed up-to-date synthesis of the material available on these monuments, incorporating the results of recent research in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. This research has brought to light new data on the construction of the megaliths and their role in the cultural landscape, and Magdalena Midgley offers a fascinating interpretation of the symbolism of megalithic tombs within the context of early farming communities. This wealth of new evidence suggests the Northern European megaliths were important foci in the wider north-west European context. The construction of dolmens and passage graves, using huge glacial boulders, demanded both great communal effort and considerable skill. In addition to this technical expertise the master builders also made use of their esoteric knowledge of rituals. This was expressed in the use of exotic building materials and special architectural features, and in the placement of tombs within the natural and cultural landscapes, creating new metaphors and images. Fully illustrated, this book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of European Prehistory, Archaeology and Prehistoric Anthropology, as well as architects who study ancient architecture and social anthropologists who study modern megaliths.
Time, Culture and Identity
Author: Julian Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134641656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134641656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
Europe's First Farmers
Author: T. Douglas Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521665728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521665728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.
Palaeohistoria 53/54 (2011/2012)
Author: P. A. J. Attema
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9491431145
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The annual journal Palaeohistoria is edited by the staff of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, and carries detailed articles on material culture, analysis of radiocarbon data and the results of excavations, surveys and coring campaigns.
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9491431145
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The annual journal Palaeohistoria is edited by the staff of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, and carries detailed articles on material culture, analysis of radiocarbon data and the results of excavations, surveys and coring campaigns.
The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics & Music
Author: Gjermund Kolltveit
Publisher: Ekho Verlag
ISBN: 394441540X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was founded in the early 1980s by Ellen Hickmann, John Blacking, Mantle Hood and Cajsa S. Lund. This is the third volume of the new anthology series published by the study group, bringing together theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of past music cultures. Each volume of the series is composed of concise case studies, bringing together the world's foremost researchers on a particular subject, reflecting the wide scope of music-archaeological research world-wide. The series draws in perspectives from a range of different disciplines, including newly emerging fields such as archaeoacoustics, but particularly encouraging both music-archaeological and ethnomusicological perspectives.
Publisher: Ekho Verlag
ISBN: 394441540X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was founded in the early 1980s by Ellen Hickmann, John Blacking, Mantle Hood and Cajsa S. Lund. This is the third volume of the new anthology series published by the study group, bringing together theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of past music cultures. Each volume of the series is composed of concise case studies, bringing together the world's foremost researchers on a particular subject, reflecting the wide scope of music-archaeological research world-wide. The series draws in perspectives from a range of different disciplines, including newly emerging fields such as archaeoacoustics, but particularly encouraging both music-archaeological and ethnomusicological perspectives.
Farmers at the Frontier
Author: Kurt J Gron
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789251435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the start of farming on the continent because it means that ultimately, domesticated plants and animals came from somewhere else, and from someone else. In an area as vast as Europe, the process by which food production becomes the predominant subsistence strategy is of course highly variable, but in a sense the outcome is the same, and has the potential for addressing more large-scale questions regarding agricultural origins. Therefore, a detailed understanding of all aspects of farming in its absolute earliest form in various regions of Europe can potentially provide a new perspective on the mechanisms by which this monumental change comes to human societies and regions. In this volume, we aim to collect various perspectives regarding the earliest farming from across Europe. Methodological approaches, archaeological cultures, and geographic locations in Europe are variable, but all papers engage with the simple question: What was the earliest farming like? This volume opens a conversation about agriculture just after the transition in order to address the role incoming people, technologies, and adaptations have in secondary adoptions. The book starts with an introduction by the editors which will serve to contextualize the theme of the volume. The broad arguments concerning the process of neolithisation are addressed, and the rationale for the volume discussed. Contributions are ordered geographically and chronologically, given the progression of the Neolithic across Europe. The editors conclude the volume with a short commentary paper regarding the theme of the volume.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789251435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the start of farming on the continent because it means that ultimately, domesticated plants and animals came from somewhere else, and from someone else. In an area as vast as Europe, the process by which food production becomes the predominant subsistence strategy is of course highly variable, but in a sense the outcome is the same, and has the potential for addressing more large-scale questions regarding agricultural origins. Therefore, a detailed understanding of all aspects of farming in its absolute earliest form in various regions of Europe can potentially provide a new perspective on the mechanisms by which this monumental change comes to human societies and regions. In this volume, we aim to collect various perspectives regarding the earliest farming from across Europe. Methodological approaches, archaeological cultures, and geographic locations in Europe are variable, but all papers engage with the simple question: What was the earliest farming like? This volume opens a conversation about agriculture just after the transition in order to address the role incoming people, technologies, and adaptations have in secondary adoptions. The book starts with an introduction by the editors which will serve to contextualize the theme of the volume. The broad arguments concerning the process of neolithisation are addressed, and the rationale for the volume discussed. Contributions are ordered geographically and chronologically, given the progression of the Neolithic across Europe. The editors conclude the volume with a short commentary paper regarding the theme of the volume.
The First Farmers of Europe
Author: Stephen Shennan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book shows how the spread of farming across Europe was the result a population expansion from present-day Turkey.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book shows how the spread of farming across Europe was the result a population expansion from present-day Turkey.