Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe : : Changing Perspectives / / A. Sherratt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sherratt, A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Changing Perspectives on European Prehistory -- Section I CYCLES OF INTERPRETATION -- 1 V. Gordon Childe: Archaeology and Intellectual History (1989) -- Section II ECOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES? -- 2 Socio-economic and Demographic Models for Later Prehistoric Europe (1972) -- 3 Water, Soil and Seasonality in Early Cereal Cultivation (1980) -- 4 Resources, Technology and Trade: An Essay on Early European Metallurgy (1976) -- 5 Social Evolution: Europe in the Later Neolithic and Copper Ages (1984) -- 6 Plough and Pastoralism: Aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution (1981) -- 7 The Secondary Exploitation of Animals in the Old World (1983, Revised) -- 8 Wool, Wheels and Ploughmarks: Local Developments or Outside Introductions in Neolithic Europe? (Submitted 19 8 5, published 19 8 7) -- 9 Two New Finds of Wooden Wheels from Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe (1986) -- Section IV PATTERNS ON THE GROUND -- 10 Mobile Resources: Settlement and Exchange in Early Agricultural Europe (1982) -- 11 The Development of Neolithic and Copper Age Settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain (1983, 1984) -- 12 Neolithic Exchange Systems in Central Europe, 6000-3500 BC (1987) -- 13 The Genesis of Megaliths: Monumentality, Ethnicity and Social Complexity in Neolithic North-West Europe (1990) -- 14 Instruments of Conversion? The Role of Megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe (1995) -- Section V INVISIBLE FLOWS: LANGUAGES, CULTURE AND DRUGS -- 15 Cups that Cheered: The Introduction of Alcohol to Prehistoric Europe! (1987) -- 16 Sacred and Profane Substances: The Ritual Use of Narcotics in Later Neolithic Europe! (1991) -- 17 Metal Vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the Context of Vulchetrun (with T. Taylor) (1984, published 1989) -- 18 Troy, Maikop, Altyn Depe: Early Bronze Age Urbanism and its Periphery (1991) -- 19 The Archaeology of Indo-European: An Alternative View (with E. S. Sherratt) (1988) -- Section VI A CONVERSATION WITH CHILDE -- 20 Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong? (1995) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX