Rethinking Neolithic Societies: New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation
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| Publisher | Sidestone Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9789464270662 |
| ISBN 10 | 9464270667 |
| Author | Caroline Heitz |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of 'archaeological cultures' fostered ideas |
| About the Author | "Caroline Heitz has studied prehistoric archaeology, social anthropology and the modern history of Eastern Europe at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since 2014, she has been a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern.Within the scope of her PhD-project - and the SNFS-research-project 'Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies of the Swiss Plateau (3900 - 3500 BC)' - she is currently working on the phenomena of mobility, entanglement, appropriation and transformation in Neolithic pottery from the UNESCO-World Heritage wetland sites of Lake Constance and Lake Zurich.Having a special interest in inter- and transdisciplinarity, she combines theoretical approaches from social anthropology with methods of archaeology and archaeometry in her research. She has co-authored a book on oral history entitled 'Annäherung an die soziale Wirklichkeit der SS-Ärzte', published papers on Neolithic wetland sites and is, with Albert Hafner, co-editor of the e-series 'Bern Working Papers on Prehistoric Archaeology'. "Maria Wunderlich is currently a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University.She has obtained her Master of Arts in 2014 in Kiel, her Master thesis being awarded the archaeology award of the Archaeological Society Schleswig-Holstein. For her PhD-studies between 2014 and 2018 she was involved in the DFG-project "Equality and Inequality: Social Differentiation in Northern Central Europe 4300-2400 BC" as a research assistant. For her comparative thesis on "Megalithic monuments and social structures" she conducted ethnoarchaeological field work in Sumba, Indonesia, and Nagaland, North-East India.Being interested in social archaeology and comparative analyses, she combines different theoretical approaches with material data derived both in recent and archaeological contexts. She obtained her doctoral degree (Dr. phil) in 2018.Martin Furholt is Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Before he was working as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the CAU Kiel.His main research interests are the social and political organisation, mobility and community composition, local and regional social networks of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in Southeast Europe, Central Europe, and Northern Europe. He conducted his Phd research on Baden Complex materials in Poland and Czech Republic, and his Habilitation thesis on the Neolithic and Chalkolithic of the Aegean Region.He is currently conducting fieldwork on 6th millennium Neolithic settlement in Slovakia and Serbia, and publishes papers related to the ongoing 3rd millennium migration debate in Europe. |
| Publication Date | 2024-02-01 |
| Number of Pages | 250 pages |
Rethinking Neolithic Societies: New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation
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