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Neolithic period --- Motsa (Israel) --- History.

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Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, and their settlements provide the link between the first agricultural communities in the Near East and the subsequent spread of the new technologies to the Balkans and on to Western Europe. In this 2001 book, Catherine Perlès argues that the stimulus for the spread of agriculture to Europe was a colonisation movement involving small groups of maritime peoples. Drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological sources, including often neglected 'small finds', and introducing daring new perspectives on funerary rituals and the distribution of figurines, she constructs a complex and subtle picture of early Neolithic societies, overturning the traditional view that these societies were simple and self-sufficient.

Neolithic period --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- -Neolithic period --- -New Stone age --- Stone age --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- Agriculture --- Food --- Greece --- -Antiquities --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Agriculture, Prehistoric. --- Greece - Antiquities. --- Neolithic period. --- Anthropology --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- Antiquities. --- -Greece --- -Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Antiquities --- E-books --- Agriculture [Prehistoric ] --- Neolithic period - Greece. --- Agriculture, Prehistoric - Greece.

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Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive range of archaeological and architectural contexts. Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and 'villages' being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. As elsewhere in the British Isles, the archaeological visibility of the 4th millennium cal BC in Orkney tends to be dominated by the monumental presence of chambered cairns or tombs. In the 1970s Claude Lévi-Strauss conceived of a form of social organisation based upon the'house' - sociétés à maisons - in order to provide a classification for social groups that appeared not to conform to established anthropological kinship structures. In this approach, the anchor point is the 'house', understood as a conceptual resource that is a consequence of a strategy of constructing and legitimising identities under ever shifting social conditions. Drawing on the results of an extensive programme of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, the text explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materialising the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formulation of sociétésà maisons are extremely relevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence and providing the parameters for a 'social' narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC. The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. The results are described and discussed in detail here, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.

Neolithic period --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Orkney (Scotland) --- Orkney Islands (Scotland) --- Orkney Islands Area (Scotland) --- Orknøyene (Scotland) --- Antiquities. --- E-books

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The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was an early Neolithic building and that the pits had been in use from the Mesolithic. This report details the excavations and reveals that the hall was associated with the storage and or consumption of cereals, including bread wheat, and pollen evidence suggests that the hall may have been part of a larger area of activity involving cereal cultivation and processing. The pits ar

Mesolithic period --- Neolithic period --- Dwellings, Prehistoric --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Palynology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Pollen --- Pollen analysis --- Botany --- Paleobotany --- Pollen, Fossil --- Plant spores --- Plant spores, Fossil --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Anthracology --- Prehistoric dwellings --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Middle Stone age --- Analysis --- Methodology --- Warren Field Site (Scotland) --- Aberdeenshire (Scotland) --- Scotland --- Aberdeenshire --- Aberdeen (Scotland : County) --- Siorrachd Obar Dheathain (Scotland) --- Aiberdeenshire (Scotland) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities

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The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region’s population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base. Physical anthropologists and archaeologists have argued for years over the timeline, the manner and the very nature of Southeast Asian population history, and this book is essential reading in this debate. Two supporting appendices describe the individual remains in detail.

History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Neolithic period. --- Vietnam. --- Red River Delta (Vietnam) --- Màn Bạc Site (Vietnam) --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Vietnam --- Antiquities --- Yüeh-nan --- Vʹet-Nam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Vʹetnam --- Wietnam --- Biet Nam --- Biyetnan --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- SRV --- S.R.V. --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Petʻŭnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- Vjetnamio --- SRVN --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- فيتنام --- Fiyitnām --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- В'етнам --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Bietnam --- Виетнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- French Indochina --- Bioarchaeology