How's life? : living conditions in the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE / edited by Marta Dal Corso [and 5 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dal Corso, Marta, editor.

Series:

Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 4.

Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age.

Iron age.

Europe--Social life and customs--To 1500.

Europe.

Europe--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age saw many developments in metalworking, social structure, food production, nutrition, and diet. At the same time, networks in Europe intensified and human impact on the environment changed in character. What influence did these transformations have on daily life? Which proxies can researchers use to study these topics? 0This volume presents scientific contributions from different fields of expertise within modern archaeology in order to investigate past living conditions through aspects of the archaeological record related to production (e.g. of food and metal), well-being (e.g. diet, health), human relations (e.g. violence), and the local environment (e.g. pollution, waste disposal, and water management). It also critically addresses contemporary graphic representations of Bronze Age living conditions. 0This volume compiles papers from a session with the same title organized for an international open workshop of the Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes', entitled 'Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Development of Landscapes IV', which took place in 2017, in Kiel, Germany. Publications detailing overarching core research on subsistence systems, societal transformations, and resilience versus rupture dynamics already exist. With this volume, we aim to provide a closer look at everyday life in past communities.

Contents:

Intro; Preface of the series editors; Editors' preface; Copper output, demand for wood and energy expenditure

Evaluating economic aspects of Bronze Age metallurgy; Johanna Brinkmann1; Warriorsʼ lives: the skeletal sample from the Bronze Age battlefield site in the Tollense Valley, north-eastern Germany; Gundula Lidke,1 Ute Brinker,2 Annemarie Schramm,3 Detlef Jantzen,4 Thomas Terberger 5; Environmental imposition or ancient farmers' choice? A study of the presence of "inferior" legumes in the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin (Hungary).; Sofia Filatova,1 Ferenc Gyulai,2Wiebke Kirleis 3

The fossil plant remains from the Early Bronze Age site of Rothenkirchen, on the island of Rügen: spatial distribution patterns as a reflection of household activitiesAlmuth Alsleben1; Waste disposal in the Bronze Age: plants in pits at Wismar-Wendorf, northern Germany; Dragana Filipović,1 Frank Mewis,2 Lars Saalow,3 Jens-Peter Schmidt,4 Wiebke Kirleis5; An overview of olive trees in the eastern Mediterranean during the mid- to late Holocene: Selective exploitation or established arboriculture?; Asli Oflaz,1 Walter Dörfler,2 Mara Weinelt 3

On-site palaeoecological investigations at the Hünenburg hillfort-settlement complex, with special reference to non-pollen palynomorphsMagdalena Wieckowska-Lüth,1 Immo Heske 2; Creating an understanding of life in and around a Bronze Age house through science-based artist impressions; Yvonne F. van Amerongen1; Case Study „How was life in Early Bronze Age Bruszczewo" Archaeology and the View on Bronze Age in Reconstruction Images; Jutta Kneisel 1; Blank Page

Notes:

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: HOW'S LIFE?

ISBN:

9789088908033

9088908036

OCLC:

1121045120

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.