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The Diffusion of Neolithic Practices from Anatolia to Europe: A contextual study of residential construction, 8,500–5,500 BC cal.

Maxime Nicolas Brami
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How did farming spread into Europe, from its origins in the Near East? And what remained of the original Neolithic, once it spread beyond its initial boundaries, to Western Anatolia, Greece and the Balkans? This book looks at the content of the Neolithic pattern of existence that spread into Europe 8,500 years ago, and specifically at practices, defined by reference to the theories of social action as normative acts or ways of doing. Beyond farming practices - this book argues - the Neolithic witnessed the inception of a new set of residential and construction practices, pertaining to the way in which houses were built, lived in and discarded at the end of their use-lives. The argument is substantiated by a detailed review of Neolithic house forms and settlement structures during the interval 8,500-5,500 BC cal. in Anatolia and the Aegean Basin, combined with a re-examination of the absolute chronology for the arrival of the first farmers.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Fast-Tracked Revolution? The Neolithic Transition in Europe as Seen from the East
  • Chapter 2. Approaches to the Spread of the Neolithic into Europe
  • Chapter 3. A Method Based on Practices
  • Chapter 4. House “Closure”
  • Chapter 5. House Replacement
  • Chapter 6. Residential Burial
  • Chapter 7. Spatial Organisation in the Rectangular House
  • Chapter 8. Agglutination
  • Chapter 9. Synthesis and Discussion: The Diffusion of Neolithic Practices from Anatolia to Europe
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A. Attributes of Neolithic Sites
  • Appendix B. Attributes of Neolithic Buildings
  • Appendix C. Quantitative Distribution of Neolithic Burials
  • Appendix D. Geographic Distribution of Southwest Asian and European Sites
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Published: 2017
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407315782 (paperback)
  • 9781407344669 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2838
Subject
  • Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
  • Neolithic / Chalcolithic
  • Levant / Near East
  • Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
  • Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
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