Alasdair Whittle and Penny Bickle (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780197265758
- eISBN:
- 9780191771965
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265758.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Rane Willerslev
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520252165
- eISBN:
- 9780520941007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520252165.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter studies the ethnography of the hunters and their relationship to the animals they aim to kill. It focuses particularly on their ideas of animal rebirth, and considers the possibility of ...
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This chapter studies the ethnography of the hunters and their relationship to the animals they aim to kill. It focuses particularly on their ideas of animal rebirth, and considers the possibility of a connection between the hunters' belief in reincarnation and their supposedly “aggressive” subsistence practices, also focusing on what is commonly reported in ethnographic studies of hunter-gatherers, namely “sharing.”Less
This chapter studies the ethnography of the hunters and their relationship to the animals they aim to kill. It focuses particularly on their ideas of animal rebirth, and considers the possibility of a connection between the hunters' belief in reincarnation and their supposedly “aggressive” subsistence practices, also focusing on what is commonly reported in ethnographic studies of hunter-gatherers, namely “sharing.”
