Download or read book The Early Economy and Settlement in Northern Europe written by H. P. Blankholm and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores economy and settlement of the early post-glacial pioneers of Northern Europe. The articles present overviews and case studies from the Early and Middle Mesolithic of Northern Scandinavia in their wider northern European setting. Given the large geographical and climatic variation--ranging from the temperate over the subarctic to the arctic zones--and rapid and large-scale, early post-glacial changes in topography and ecology across the area, a regional approach is necessary. Special emphasis is placed on how the early pioneer hunter-fisher-gatherers 'mapped onto the landscape'--organized their economy and settlement - in order to provide for a broader and deeper understanding of the 'big issues' such as why, from where, and how they came into different parts of Northern Scandinavia and in particular how the maritime component of the economy and settlement emerged. Another issue of particular, contemporary human interest is addressed through studies of how the early pioneers coped with rapid and large-scale climatic changes and their impact on living conditions. In addition new methodologies of particular relevance are presented. Based on new analyses and field-work this book brings fresh perspectives and insights to all these important aspects of our early post-glacial past"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Early Economy and Settlement in Northern Europe written by H. P. Blankholm and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface / Håkon Glørstad -- Introduction: The early settlement of Northern Europe : economy and settlement : new investigations / Hans Peter Blankholm -- The pioneer colonisation of northern Norway / Jan Ingolf Kleppe -- Tent, hut or house? : a discussion on early Mesolithic dwellings proceeding from the site Mohalsen 2012-II, Vega, northern Norway / Silje E. Fretheim, Hein B. Bjerck, Heidi Mjelva Breivik, A. Francisco J. Zangrando -- Large Mesolithic house : pits at Tønsnes, coastal northern Norway : evidence of a winter aggregation site? / Jan Magne Gjerde, Marianne Skandfer -- Macro-level predictive modelling of early Stone Age pioneer settlement locations in Varanger, northern Norway / Hans Peter Blankholm -- Aareavaara and the pioneer period in northern Sweden / Olof Östlund -- From Russia, with love : Eastern intruders in the north Norwegian Mesolithic / Tuija Rankama, Jarmo Kankaanpää -- Early Mesolithic central Norway : a review of research history, settlements, and tool tradition / Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Hein B. Bjerck -- The early Mesolithic of western Norway / Leif Inge Åstveit -- The first one thousand years : human colonization and differentiated landscape use in southwestern Norway, 10,000 to 9000 years BP / Sveinung Bang-Andersen -- The pioneer settlement of southwestern Norway : a case study / Sigrid Alraek Dugstad -- The pioneer settlement of eastern Norway / Hege Damlien, Steinar Solheim -- Pauler 2 : an ordinary early Mesolithic site from south-eastern Norway? / Astrid J. Nyland.
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Download or read book Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe written by Sherratt A. Sherratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.
Download or read book Ecology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe written by Per Persson and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe throughout the period 10000-6000 BC. The volume contains contributions from ecological oriented archaeologists and from the natural sciences, throwing new light on the physical and biotic/ecological conditions of relevance to the earliest settlement. Main themes are human subsistence, subsistence technology, ecology and food availability pertaining to the first humans, and demographic patterns among humans linked to the accessibility of different landscapes"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Origins of Agriculture in Europe written by I. J. Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Agriculture in Europe takes a look at current ideas in the light of a considerable mass of literature and archaeological evidence; examining the transition to agriculture through the comparison of social and economic developments across Europe. In this volume, I.J.Thorpe manages to evaluate various alternative explanations in detailed examples, whilst also succeeding in addressing the broader theoretical questions which form the nucleus of contemporary debates. This clearly written and accessible text is an extremely valuable resource for students of European prehistory.
Download or read book Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe written by Niall Brady and published by Ruralia. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe written by Felix Biermann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material traces of this reality, other than the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins paid in exchange for the northern European slaves. This volume offers the first structured reflection on how to bridge this gap. It reviews the types of material evidence that can be associated with the institution of slavery and the slave trade in early medieval northern Europe, from individual objects (such as e.g. shackles) to more comprehensive landscape approaches. The book is divided into four sections. The first presents the analytical tools developed in Africa and prehistoric Europe to identify and describe social phenomena associated with slavery and the slave trade. The following three section review the three main cultural zones of early medieval northern Europe: the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Slavic central Europe. The contributions offer methodological reflections on the concept of the archaeology of slavery. They emphasize that the material record, by its nature, admits multiple interpretations. More broadly, this book comes at a time when the history of slavery is being integrated into academic syllabi in most western countries. The collection of studies contributes to a more nuanced perspective on this important and controversial topic. This volume appeals to multiple audiences interested in comparative and global studies of slavery, and will constitute the point of reference for future debates.
Download or read book Early Medieval Settlements written by Helena Hamerow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and individual farmsteads develop? how and when did agrarian production become intensified and how did this affect village communities? what role did craft production and trade play in the rural economy? In a period for which written sources are scarce, archaeology is of central importance in understanding the 'small worlds' of early medieval communities. Helena Hamerow's extensively illustrated and accessible study offers the first overview and synthesis of the large and rapidly growing body of evidence for early medieval settlements in north-west Europe, as well as a consideration of the implications of this evidence for Anglo-Saxon England. SERIES DESCRIPTION The aim of the series is to reflect the creative dialogue that is developing between the disciplines of medieval history and archaeology. It will integrate archaeological and historical approaches to aspects of medieval society, economy, and culture. A range of archaeological evidence will be presented and interpreted in ways accessible to historians, while providing a historical perspective and context for those studying the material culture of the period.
Download or read book Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside written by Piers Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the various structures and economic activities of medieval and post-medieval seasonal settlements all over Europe are presented.
Download or read book An Economic History of Medieval Europe written by Norman John Greville Pounds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including an unusually rich treatment of Eastern Europe. For this welcome new edition -- the first in twenty years -- text and bibliography have been reworked and updated throughout, and the book redesigned and reset.
Download or read book European Settlement and Development in North America written by James W. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe written by Kjel Knutsson and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores technology and communication of the early settlements of Northern Europe. The articles will discuss case studies and present overviews from the early and middle Mesolithic of Northern Europe. Special emphasis will be put on the spatial and temporal transmission of knowledge and culture. This subject addresses themes such as the transmission of specialised knowledge, the generative transmission of knowledge, the understanding of technology as somatic or incorporated culture in human society and the role of pedagogies and teaching in cultural sustainment and transformation. Other papers will discuss the relation between demography and technological developments, as well as the natural and cultural context for the transmission of culture. The understanding of the transmission of technology is, again, closely interrelated to the nature and efficiency of social networks of contact and their social and physical framework. Ultimately these question addresses one of the fundamental issues of our time - how to understand and cope with radical changes. This book provides new and different answers to this great problem of our time.
Download or read book Post Roman Towns Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium The heirs of the Roman West written by Joachim Henning and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
Download or read book Forest Farmers and Stockherders written by Peter Bogucki and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, this book explores the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000-3000 BC.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe written by Chris Fowler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which research is carried out, and the way research traditions in different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic --from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta --offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work in the field.
Download or read book A Prehistory of the North written by John F. Hoffecker and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Early humans did not drift north from Africa as their ability to cope with cooler climates evolved. Settlement of Europe and northern Asia occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. This study tells the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth.
