Forging Identities in the Prehistory of Old Europe : : Dividuals, Individuals and Communities, 7000-3000 BC.

• Author: Chapman, J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Sidestone Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 pages)

Balkan prehistory conjures up images of the Exotic and the Other in comparison with the better-known prehistory of Western Europe - often written in unfamiliar languages about lesser known places. Combined with the information revolution in archaeology, these factors have meant that no new synthesis...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• Introducing the research questions
• The study region
• The palaeo-environment
• Temporality
• The cultural framework
• Research in social archaeologies
• Research questions
• Book contents
• Chapter 2
• Framing the enquiry
• Introduction: living within the rules
• Questions of scale
• Basic terms
• Relations
• Settlements and the mortuary domain
• The proliferation of objects
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 3
• Foodways - foraging and agro-pastoral practices
• Introduction
• Stage 1: catching and collecting, growing and tending
• Stage 2: food allocation and storage
• Stages 3-4: cooking and eating
• Stage 5
• Chapter Summary
• Persons
• Introducing some special persons
• Life courses
• The life course in death: mortuary costumes and personhood
• Personal skills
• Personhood and the production of images
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 5
• Houses and households
• Introduction: building an experimental 'Neolithic' house
• Definitions and general issues
• Building forager houses in Phases 1 (7000-6300 BC) and 2 (6300-5300 BC)
• Phase 2 houses
• Phase 3 houses
• Phase 4 houses
• Phase 5 houses
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 6
• Settlement planning
• Introduction
• Settlement form
• A diversity of site types
• Planning at forager settlements?
• Phase 2 settlements
• Phase 3 - the spread of settlement planning
• Phase 4 planning - the displacement of concentricity
• Phase 5 - the triumph of concentricity in Eastern Europe
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 7
• The mortuary zone
• Introduction
• The absent, the bone, the body and the cemetery
• Cemeteries in Old Europe
• Summary of Chapters 6 and 7: the mortuary and domestic domains
• Chapter 8
• Long-term settlement dynamics
• Introduction
• Settlement patterns by modern state
• Bulgaria.
• The lands of 'former Yugoslavia' (Serbia, Republic of North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosova and Bosnia - Hercegovina)
• Settlement in Hungary
• Settlement in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 9
• Networks
• Introduction: an exotic pumice-stone
• Settlement networks
• Phase 1 networks
• Phase 2 networks
• Phase 3 networks
• Phase 4 networks
• Phase 5 networks
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 10
• Change and continuity
• Introduction
• The emergence of farming: a network model
• The onset of copper and gold metallurgy
• The emergence of urbanism in the Ukrainian forest-steppe
• Chapter summary
• Chapter 11
• Summary and conclusions
• Summarising without writing a Grand Narrative
• Research question (1): how to form relations
• Research Questions (2 and 3): material culture and the settlement domain
• In conclusion
• Bibliography
• Indices
• General index
• Index of people
• Index of places
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