An Ethnography of the Neolithic provides a provocative and novel reconstruction of society in Scandinavia over a period of 3,000 years. Christopher Tilley integrates a wide range of evidence, from prehistoric landscapes to the symbolic significance of axes and pots, to recreate in an accessible way the lives of the final hunter-gatherer-fishers and first farmers in Sweden and Denmark. His skillful fusion of archaeological evidence and new anthropological approaches makes this book an original contribution to a widely debated topic.
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"It remains the virtue of the book that it so consistently and successfully integrates the social and symbolic and demonstrates how social and cosmological changes are related, defining an increasingly competitive and complex order of social reproduction that integrates the past and the present through complex rituals and through a ritualization of landscape....The book is a must for archaeologists and a welcome inspiration for an anthropology of material culture." Kristian Kristiansen, American Anthropologist
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From prehistoric landscapes to the symbolic significance of axes and pots, this study integrates a wide range of evidence to recreate the lives of the final hunter-gatherer-fishers and first farmers in Sweden and Denmark over a period of 3,000 years.
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The last hunter-fisher-gatherers in southern Scandinavia which comprises Denmark and southern Sweden (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2), lived during the period 4500-3200 BC. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
round dolmens, long dolmens, double passage grave, dolmen chambers, groundstone axes, artefact destruction, cereal impressions, tooth beads, artefact deposition, mound dimensions, passage graves, burnt bone fragments, decorated artefacts, pottery deposited, votive depositions, antler axes, antler artefacts, mortuary events, middle neolithic, axe fragments, sherd material, funnel beaker culture, transverse arrowheads, chamber orientation, causewayed enclosures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brinch Petersen, Hindby Mosse, Bronze Age, Tybrind Vig, Mesolithic Lihult, Pitted Ware, Papua New Guinea, Vroue Hede, Bygholm Nerremark, Iron Age, Laxmans Akarp, Buus Eriksen, Kjaer Kristensen, Scandinavian Neolithic, Vang Petersen New!
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The last hunter-fisher-gatherers in southern Scandinavia which comprises Denmark and southern Sweden (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2), lived during the period 4500-3200 BC. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
round dolmens, long dolmens, double passage grave, dolmen chambers, groundstone axes, artefact destruction, cereal impressions, tooth beads, artefact deposition, mound dimensions, passage graves, burnt bone fragments, decorated artefacts, pottery deposited, votive depositions, antler axes, antler artefacts, mortuary events, middle neolithic, axe fragments, sherd material, funnel beaker culture, transverse arrowheads, chamber orientation, causewayed enclosures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brinch Petersen, Hindby Mosse, Bronze Age, Tybrind Vig, Mesolithic Lihult, Pitted Ware, Papua New Guinea, Vroue Hede, Bygholm Nerremark, Iron Age, Laxmans Akarp, Buus Eriksen, Kjaer Kristensen, Scandinavian Neolithic, Vang Petersen New!
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- The Mesolithic in Europe (Papers Presented at the 3rd International Symposium Edinburgh 1985) by Clive Bonsall on 5 pages
- Ideology, Power and Prehistory (New Directions in Archaeology) by Daniel Miller in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landscape: Politics and Perspectives (Explorations in Anthropology) by Barbara Bender in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen on page 159, and Back Matter
- The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns (One World Archaeology) by Bassey Andah in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Social Evolution (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) by Mark Pluciennik in Back Matter
- Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland by Gabriel Cooney in Back Matter
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