The birth of Neolithic Britain : an interpretive account / Julian Thomas, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester.
| Author/creator |
Thomas, Julian, 1959- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xi, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Contents | Introduction: The problem -- The Neolithization of southern Europe -- The Neolithization of northern Europe -- The Neolithization of Europe : themes -- The Neolithic transition in Britain : a critical historiography -- Mesolithic prelude? -- Times and places -- Contact, interaction and seafaring -- Architecture : halls and houses -- Architecture : timber structures, long mounds and megaliths -- Portable artefacts : tradition and transmission -- Plants and animals : diet and social capital -- Conclusion: A model for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain. |
| Scope and content | "The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows and megalithic tombs. Every year, numerous new articles are published on different aspects of the topic, ranging from diet and subsistence economy to population movement, architecture, and seafaring. Thomas offers a treatment that synthesizes all of this material, presenting a coherent argument to explain the process of transition between the Mesolithic-Neolithic periods. Necessarily, the developments in Britain are put into the context of broader debates about the origins of agriculture in Europe, and the diversity of processes of change in different parts of the continent are explored. These are followed by a historiographic treatment of debates on the transition in Britain"--Back of dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-497) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013947864 |
| ISBN | 9780199681969 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0199681961 (hardcover) |
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