Overview
- Discusses the expanison of farming at the beginning of the Neolithic in the Western and Central Mediterranean
- Highlights the most recent advances in archaeological and scientific research aimed at better understanding the neolithisation process in the Mediterranean
- Focuses on the Neolithic transition in the Western and Central Mediterranean regions
- Brings together different novel methods and techniques applied to research assessing the neolithisation of the Mediterranean
Part of the book series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology (FIAR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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New Discoveries and New Ideas About the Mediterranean Neolithic
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Reconstructing Times and Modeling Processes
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Landscape Interactions: Farming and Herding
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Dietary Subsistence of Early Farming Communities
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Human Dispersal Mechanisms and Cultural Transmission
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Keywords
- Dietary subsistence of early farming communities
- Expansion of Neolithic farming, herding and crop management
- Human dispersal and cultural transmission
- Neolithic transition in the Western and Central Mediterranean
- New discoveries and ideas in the Neolithic Mediterranean
- Reconstructing Neolithic times and modeling practices
About this book
The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic.
This volume is organized into five sections:
· new discoveries and new ideas about the Mediterranean Neolithic· reconstructing times and modeling processes
· landscape interaction: farming and herding· dietary subsistence of early farming communities
· human dispersal mechanisms and cultural transmissionThis volume will also provide new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Oreto García Puchol
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean
Editors: Oreto García-Puchol, Domingo C. Salazar-García
Series Title: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52939-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52937-0Published: 10 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93217-0Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52939-4Published: 01 July 2017
Series ISSN: 1567-8040
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 417
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology