Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science
Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science
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Abstract
Taking the European Neolithic as its focal point, this wide-ranging set of chapters illustrates how the different disciplinary paths within scientific and interpretative archaeology can be woven together to forward our understanding of early farmers, including their origins, varied subsistence practices and social networks. Contributions to the volume present a broad range of innovative approaches, including isotopic studies of mobility and diet, lipid analysis of pottery, recent advances in osteological studies and ancient DNA analysis. These are combined with chapters considering the wider theoretical implications of these analytical advances and new directions of research. The case studies discussed range across the European continent, covering from the Near East to the UK. Together this research has forced the reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the social organisation of the earliest farmers and individual biographies of past persons. In surveying the impact of recent developments in scientific archaeology on the research questions being asked of the Neolithic, an agenda is set for future collaborative research.
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Introduction: Integrated and Multi-scalar Approaches to Early Farmers in Europe
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The Future Neolithic: A New Research Agenda
John Robb
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Some Possible Conditions Necessary for the Colonisation of Europe by Domesticates
John C. Barrett
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Multi-agent Modelling of the Trajectory of the LBK Neolithic: A Study in Progress
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and others
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Ancient DNA Evidence for a Homogeneous Maternal Gene Pool in Sixth Millennium cal bc Hungary and the Central European LBK
Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and others
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Settlement Burials at the Karsdorf LBK Site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Biological Ties and Residential Mobility
Guido Brandt and others
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Cattle and Sheep Herding at Cheia, Romania, at the Turn of the Fifth Millennium cal BC: A View from Stable Isotope Analysis
Marie Balasse and others
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Herding Practices in the Ditched Villages of the Neolithic Tavoliere (Apulia, South-east Italy): A Vicious Circle? The Isotopic Evidence
Mary Anne Tafuri and others
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Linear Pottery Culture Household Organisation: An Economic Model
Lamys Hachem andCaroline Hamon
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Framing Farming: A Multi-stranded Approach to Early Agricultural Practice in Europe
Amy Bogaard
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Stewing on a Theme of Cuisine: Biomolecular and Interpretive Approaches to Culinary Changes at the Transition to Agriculture
Hayley Saul and others
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Life Conditions and Health in Early Farmers: A Global Perspective on Costs and Consequences of a Fundamental Transition
Clark Spencer Larsen
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Biographical Bodies: Flesh and Food at Çatalhöyük
Jessica Pearson andLynn Meskell
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Neolithic Lifeways: Microstratigraphic Traces within Houses, Animal Pens and Settlements
Wendy Matthews and others
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Violence in Neolithic North-west Europe: A Population Perspective
Rick J. Schulting andLinda Fibiger
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Mass Graves of the LBK: Patterns and Peculiarities
Christian Meyer and others
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Revealing Our Vibrant Past: Science, Materiality and the Neolithic
Oliver J.T. Harris
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Pottery, Archaeology and Chemistry: Contents and Context
Jessica Smyth andRichard P. Evershed
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Constructing a Narrative for the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland: The Use of ‘Hard Science’ and Archaeological Reasoning
Alison Sheridan andPierre Pétrequin
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Doing Science in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age: An Insider’s Perspective
John Chapman
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Archaeological Science and the Neolithic: The Power and Perils of Proxy Measures
Paul Halstead
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