The Birth of Neolithic Britain: An Interpretive Account
The Birth of Neolithic Britain: An Interpretive Account
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新石器时代英国的诞生：解释性叙述
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2014
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Julian Thomas
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Julian Thomas
英国首次对中石器-新石器过渡进行全书长度的研究
从人类学角度分析史前变化的一个扩展例子
从考古学的不同领域合成材料
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英国新石器时代的开始是考古学长期感兴趣的话题，标志着狩猎采集生活方式的结束，引入了驯化的动植物、陶器、抛光的石器和一系列新类型的纪念碑，包括陶器长手推车和巨石墓穴。每年，从饮食和自给自足经济到人口流动、建筑和航海，每年都会发表大量关于这个主题的不同方面的新文章。托马斯提出了一种综合所有这些材料的方法，提出了一个连贯的论点来解释中石器时代和新石器时代之间的过渡过程。
有必要将英国的发展放在关于欧洲农业起源的更广泛辩论的背景下，并探索欧洲大陆不同地区变化过程的多样性。接下来是对英国过渡时期辩论的史学处理。章节涵盖了中石器时代的背景，接触和相互作用的过程，纪念性建筑和木材大厅，便携式文物，以及植物和动物。最后的论点是，经济和物质文化的发展必须被理解为与根本的社会变革有关。
First book-length study of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain
An extended example of an analysis of prehistoric change from an anthropological perspective
Synthesizes material from a range of different fields of archaeology
Illustrated throughout
The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows and megalithic tombs. Every year, numerous new articles are published on different aspects of the topic, ranging from diet and subsistence economy to population movement, architecture, and seafaring. Thomas offers a treatment that synthesizes all of this material, presenting a coherent argument to explain the process of transition between the Mesolithic-Neolithic periods.
Necessarily, the developments in Britain are put into the context of broader debates about the origins of agriculture in Europe, and the diversity of processes of change in different parts of the continent are explored. These are followed by a historiographic treatment of debates on the transition in Britain. Chapters cover the Mesolithic background, processes of contact and interaction, monumental architecture and timber halls, portable artefacts, and plants and animals. The concluding argument is that developments in the economy and material culture must be understood as being related to fundamental social transformations.