[PDF] Prehistoric Europe eBook

Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9088902011

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Salt was a commodity of great importance in the ancient past, just as it is today. Its roles in promoting human health and in making food more palatable are well-known; in peasant societies it also plays a very important role in the preservation of foodstuffs and in a range of industries. Uncovering the evidence for the ancient production and use of salt has been a concern for historians over many years, but interest in the archaeology of salt has been a particular focus of research in recent times. This book charts the history of research on archaeological salt and traces the story of its production in Europe from earliest times down to the Iron Age. It presents the results of recent research, which has shown how much new evidence is now available from the different countries of Europe. The book considers new approaches to the archaeology of salt, including a GIS analysis of the oft-cited association between Bronze Age hoards and salt sources, and investigates the possibility of a new narrative of salt production in prehistoric Europe based on the role of salt in society, including issues of gender and the control of sources. The book is intended for both academics and the general reader interested in the prehistory of a fundamental but often under-appreciated commodity in the ancient past. It includes the results of the author’s own research as well as an up-to-date survey of current work.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854414

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Provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire, providing information on the changing landscape of Europe and responses and adaptations to these changes.

Author : Timothy Champion
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1598744631

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This volume provides an elementary and comprehensive synthesis of the new discoveries and the new interpretations of European prehistory.

Author : Sherratt A. Sherratt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1474472567

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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.

Author : Christopher Scarre
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Part travel guide, part survey of Europe's prehistory,Exploring Prehistoric Europedelves into fifteen of the most famous, most important, and most exciting archaeological sites in Europe. The first volume in the Places in Time series, this beautiful book takes us to locales both famous and obscure, from Ireland to Poland to Malta, ranging chronologically from Terra Amata, a site in southern France occupied some 380,000 years ago, to Borremose, a Danish settlement that dates to Roman times. The author, archaeologist Chris Scarre, examines the haunting cave paintings of Lascaux, France; the stone circle and ritual complexes of Avebury, England; and the ever mysterious Stonehenge--as well as lesser known but no less intriguing sites around Europe. For each location, he conducts a careful tour of the existing remains, describes the history of its excavation, and then interprets how the site might have been built, used, or occupied. Readers will explore a variety of cultures and monuments, from megalithic stone circles to Neolithic villages to Bronze Age tombs, and see intimate portraits of the daily life of Europe's prehistoric ancestors. Perhaps equally important, Scarre has selected the sites with accessibility in mind--all can be easily reached by the modern tourist--and he also highlights local museums and visitor centers where further artifacts and information can be found. Beautifully illustrated with maps and full-color photographs,Exploring Prehistoric Europemakes the perfect companion for the historically minded traveler--or the reader who wants to curl up at home and wander at leisure through the distant past.

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1134282559

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This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance. With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.

Author : Corrie C. Bakels
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Prehistoric peoples
ISBN : 9789088907470

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This book is about how local communities in prehistory, by shaping their landscape, carved out a place for themselves in a big social world that stretched out far beyond the landscape they lived and worked in.

Author : Timothy Champion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1315422123

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This volume provides an elementary and comprehensive synthesis of the new discoveries and the new interpretations of European prehistory.

Author : Andrew Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405125977

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Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of critical contemporary thinking in the study of European prehistory. Presents essays by some of the most dynamic researchers and leading European scholars in the field today Ranges from the Neolithic period to the early stages of the Iron Age, and from Ireland and Scandinavia to the Urals and the Iberian Peninsula

Author : Nancy K. Sandars
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300052862

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Until around 10,000 BC art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world and throws light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture is from the first surprizingly classical. With the shelter paintings of the Spanish Levant and the clay modelling and painted pottery of eastern Europe in the fourth and third millennia BC fresh artistic problems were tackled. Later still evolved the high technical accomplishment of the metal-workers, and this study concludes with an account of the new departures of Celtic La Tene art of the last four centuries BC.