The archaeology of people : dimensions of Neolithic life / Alasdair Whittle.

By:

Whittle, A. W. R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203403533
9780203403532
9780415304078
0415304075
9780415304085
0415304083
9786610072897
6610072892
1134409826
9781134409822
0203355563
9780203355565

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeology of people.DDC classification:

936 22

LOC classification:

GN776.2.A1 W44 2003eb

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Being there -- chapter 2 The daily round -- chapter 3 Difﬁcult individuals -- chapter 4 What animals were like -- chapter 5 Looking back -- chapter 6 Lives -- chapter 7 What happened in history?.

Summary: Annotation Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate. The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain. Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and structure are dealt with, but Professor Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful. Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which constituted Neolithic existence: the web of daily routines, group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes to the past. The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic which will offer insights to readers at every level.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and index.

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Annotation Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate. The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain. Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and structure are dealt with, but Professor Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful. Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which constituted Neolithic existence: the web of daily routines, group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes to the past. The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic which will offer insights to readers at every level.

English.

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