Early Farmers of West Mediterranean Europe

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-49489-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 138 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B. C. (in radio-carbon year) to the beginning of the Bronze Age. It illustrates the change from Mesolithic to Neolithic cultures over a wide area: (South of France, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia and Spain). The book explores the human societies that lived through this important period of change and adaptation. From their density of settlement, site locations and material culture, hypotheses can be made as to population size and structure. There are sufficient clues in the archaeological record to make possible very cogent comparisons between the hunter-gatherers of the pre-pottery era in West Mediterranean Europe and their distant descendants on the eve of the Bronze Age. How these changes came about, and their effect on Neolithic people as individuals and members of human society form the central part of the book.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Pre-Farming Communities 3. The First Farmers 4. The Fourth Millennium B.C. 5. The Third Millennium B. C. 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Phillips was Lecturer in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.