Seeking the first farmers in western Sjælland, Denmark : the archaeology of the transition to agriculture in Northern Europe / T. Douglas Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, T. Douglas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume summarises 30 years of fieldwork in Denmark, some of the evidence for the spread of agriculture and the Neolithic into Scandinavia and some opinions about the origins of agriculture. It is intended to be both academic and personal and to describe the actual process of research, because most projects involve elements of both. There is an introduction to each chapter that relates some of the more personal aspects of the research and the bulk of each chapter will be a more technical scientific report on our investigations. Each chapter will deal with one of the components of the project - survey, testing and excavations. We excavated eight sites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic that are discussed in this volume. The concluding chapter summarises our research in the area and proffers opinions on a variety of archaeological subjects, with visits to climate change, seasonality and sedentism, hunter-gatherer complexity, aDNA, inequality and the origins and spread of agriculture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. An Introduction - Setting the Table

2. Field Survey

3. Site Testing

4. Smakkerup Huse

5. Trustrup

6. Dragsholm and Bøgebjerg

7. Fårevejle

8. Asnæs Havnemark

9. Conclusions

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781789257670

1789257670

9781789257663

1789257662

OCLC:

1430662702