Mesolithic Adaptations on the Lower Danube
Author: Beth Prinz
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780860544241
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Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780860544241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher B. Ruff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1118627962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive analysis of changes in body form and skeletal robusticity from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Holocene, leading to the modern European human phenotype. Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century brings together for the first time the results of an unprecedented large-scale investigation of European skeletal remains. The study was conducted over ten years by an international research team, and includes more than 2,000 skeletons spanning most of the European continent over the past 30,000 years, from the Early Upper Paleolithic to the 20th century. This time span includes environmental transitions from foraging to food production, small-scale to large-scale urban settlements, increasing social stratification and mechanization of labor, and climatic changes. Alterations in body form and behavior in response to these transitions are reconstructed through osteometric and biomechanical analyses. Divided into four sections, the book includes an introduction to the project and comprehensive descriptions of the methods used; general continent-wide syntheses of major trends in body size, shape, and skeletal robusticity; detailed regional analyses; and a summary of results. It also offers a full data set on an external website. Brings together data from an unprecedented large-scale study of human skeletal and anatomical variations Includes appendix of specific information from each research site Synthesizes data from spatial, temporal, regional, and geographical perspectives Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans will be a valuable resource for bioarchaeologists, palaeoanthropologists, forensic anthropologists, medical historians, and archaeologists at both the graduate and post-graduate level.
Author: Vicki Cummings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 1361
ISBN-13: 0199551227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies, undertaking detailed regional and thematic case-studies that span the archaeology, history and anthropology of hunter gatherers, concluding with an in-depth review of the main opportunities, research questions, and moral obligations that lie ahead.
Author: T. Douglas Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-09-14
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521665728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.
Author: Tomasz Płonka
Publisher: Wdawn. Uniwersytetu Wrocawskiego
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13:
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Author: A. W. R. Whittle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-05-23
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521449205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dr. Whittle reviews the latest archaeological evidence on Neolithic Europe from 7000 to 2500 BC. Describing important areas, sites and problems, he addresses the major themes that have engaged the attention of scholars: the transition from a forager lifestyle; the rate and dynamics of change; and the nature of Neolithic society. He challenges conventional views, arguing that Neolithic society was rooted in the values and practices of its forager, predecessors right across the continent. The processes of settling down and adopting farming were piecemeal and slow. Only gradually did new attitudes emerge, to time and the past, to the sacred realms of ancestors and the dead, to nature and to the concept of community. Unique in its broad and up-to-date coverage of long-term processes of change on a continental scale, this completely rewritten and revised version of Whittle's Neolithic Europe: a survey reflects radical changes in the evidence and in interpretative approaches over the past decade.
Author: Douglass W. Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1134607083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed for an archaeology of the Balkans and will be required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.
Author: Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1441966331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments are explored using a wide range of archaeological data that emphasizes aspects of agricultural practices, gender, mortuary practices, population genetics, ritual, settlement patterns, technology, trade, and warfare. Using new methods and theories, recent discoveries and arguments are presented and previous discoveries reevaluated. This work includes chapters on European geography and the chronology of European prehistory. A new chapter has been added on the historical development of European archaeology. The remaining chapters have been contributed by archaeologists specializing in different periods. The second edition of European Prehistory: A Survey is enhanced by a glossary, three indices and a comprehensive bibliography, as well as an extensive collection of maps, chronological tables and photographs.
Author: Pierre M. Vermeersch
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9789061864080
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