Neolithic Britain the transformation of social worlds
Neolithic Britain' is an up to date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE, covering key material and social developments, and reflecting on the nature of cultural practices, tradition, genealogy, and society across nearly two millennia.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47418242*spi |
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- Cover; NEOLITHIC BRITAIN: The Transformation of Social Worlds; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; Introduction: Neolithic Britain-encounters and reflections; One: Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey; Revolutions and emigrants; Ecology and social evolution; Symbol and meaning; Writing the Neolithic as metaphor; Writing the Neolithic creatively; Writing 'timescapes': new chronologies for the Neolithic; Writing the Neolithic in a geographically balanced way; The grand narrative versus emergent causation.
- Writing 'the transformation of social worlds'; Two: 4000 bce: a cultural threshold; Differing views of a threshold; Continuities across the threshold; Innovative communities and their practices; Halls, migration, and complexity: a White Horse Stone tale; New preoccupations, new histories ... new people?; Genes and migrants; Into fourth-millennium 'history'; Three: Narratives for the fourth millennium; The fourth millennium bce in Britain: a broad-brush perspective; In the beginning, there was fine pottery . . .; A narrative of Neolithization, and the creation of houses or halls.
- A narrative of human burial, and the first creation of bone repositories; Regionalization and exchange networks; A narrative of changing subsistence practices; Building long mounds and chambers, variously; Creating enclosures and delimiting space within a circle or curve; Delimiting space in a linear way; Cultural diversities and elaborations; The descent and diversification of traditions; Four: Social being and cultural practices; Working and extracting flint; From feasting to deposition; Dwelling; Herding and hunting; Harm; Communicating with pots?; Timberworld.
- Trails of the axes: from procurement to exchange; The art of transformation in skeuomorphic practices; Dealings with the dead: histories of the body; Five: Narratives for the third millennium; Orkney house societies; The Grooved Ware phenomenon; The symbolic encapsulation of the house; Henging, mounding, and the dead; Stonehenge; Dye in the blood: the appearance of Beakers in Late Neolithic Britain; Six: Kinship, history, and descent; Beginning with trees: encapsulating a hunting and gathering past; The Sweet Track: histories in and between place; 'In the kinship of cows' revisited.
- Times and lives: some clues concerning Neolithic concepts of timeIdentity and descent implicated in the placing of pottery; The creation, incorporation, and embodiment of the 'House'; The communication and 'seeding' of history in stone; Curation of remains from the past in the Neolithic; Patterns of commemoration: burning and marking; Making and recording history through practice; Conclusion: A lived Neolithic; Experiencing the Neolithic in the present; People and things; Neolithic Britain and the wider world; The transformation of social worlds.
