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Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270679
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 63fc / 14bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464270662
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology
Illustrations: 63fc / 14bw
Description:
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of ‘archaeological cultures’ fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming – as the core of the Neolithic way of life – was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regional social networks.