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NW Europe in Transition

The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden

£31.00
Editors:
Mats Larsson and Jolene Debert
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310879
Paperback:
97pp. Illustrated throughout
ISBN 10:
1407310879
BAR number:
S2475
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This book is concerned with the developments that followed on from the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia (Denmark and Southern Sweden), and the idiosyncratic social and cultural patterns that emerged as the revolutionary potential of the Neolithic was gradually realised. Fundamental to the contributors approach is a concern with the ways in which communities inhabit their landscapes. If the Neolithic involved the introduction of new species of plants and animals and new forms of material culture into indigenous contexts, the longer-term consequences of this development should be gauged through changing practices of dwelling: patterns of occupation and mobility, the organisation of space, the location of ritual activities, the dead, and the sacred; and degrees of impact in ecological conditions. The authors examine the implicit knowledge, habitual practice and material culture as forms of cultural inheritance which are passed between generations, and modified by innovation.