The Archaeology of People Dimensions of Neolithic Life 1st Edition by Alisdair Whittle 0415304083 9780415304085

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ISBN 10: 0415304083

ISBN 13: 9780415304085

Author: Alisdair Whittle

Alasdair Whittle’s new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate. The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain. Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and structure are dealt with, but Professor Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful. Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which constituted Neolithic existence: the web of daily routines, group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes to the past. The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic which will offer insights to readers at every level.

The Archaeology of People Dimensions of Neolithic Life 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Being there
Two examples
Structure and agency
Taskscape and dwelling
Culture, values and the moral network
How they thought
Individuals and networks
The argument that follows

Chapter 2: The daily round
An archaeology of the body?
Movements and tasks in the routine of residence

Chapter 3: Difficult individuals
Individuals
Society, culture and the moral community
Community and household
Some patterns

Chapter 4: What animals were like
Physicality, intimacy and sociality
Thinking animals

Chapter 5: Looking back
Remembering at work
Cumulative selections
The range of rememberings in daily life
Myth
Monuments and remembering
Remembered forebears: the multiplicity of ancestors

Chapter 6: Lives
Longhouse lives
Shorthouse settings
Living by mounds and mountains

Chapter 7: What happened in history?
Subjects for discussion
Different kinds of history

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