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Neolithic and Bronze Age Studies in Europe: from material culture to territories presents eight papers from the 2018 UISPP Congress. Topics include the neolithisation process in the Iberian Peninsula; faunal exploitation in early Neolithic Italy; the economic and symbolic role of animals in eastern Germany; Copper Age human remains in central Italy; animal figurines; spatula-idols; territories and schematic art in the Iberian Neolithic; and finally Bronze age hoards at a European scale. The diversity of the papers reflects contemporary approaches and questions in those periods.

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Author:   Marie Besse ,  François Giligny
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress
Weight:   0.406kg
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9781789697193

ISBN 10:   1789697190
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   08 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction to Neolithic and Bronze Age studies in Europe: from material culture to Territories – Marie Besse, François Giligny ; Deconstructing the Neolithic: reflections from the Iberian Peninsula – Alfonso Alday, Lourdes Montes, Adriana Soto, Rafael Domingo ; Faunal exploitation in an Early Neolithic site: the assemblage from Casa Gazza (Travo, Piacenza, Northern Italy) – Chiara Messana, Maria Bernabò Brea, Marco Bertolini, Ursula Thun Hohenstein (corresponding author) ; The role of animals in the Salzmünde Society and beyond (ElbeSaale region, Germany) – Svenja Höltkemeier, Susanne Friederich ; Human skeletal remains from the Eneolithic of Spinosa Cave (GrossetoTuscany, Italy) – Antonietta Del Bove, Elsa Pacciani, Biancamaria Aranguren ; Chronologie et contextes des spatulesidoles dans les Pyrénées occidentales – Javier FernándezEraso, José Antonio MujikaAlustiza ; Symbolism in prehistoric Extremadura: a small zoomorphic figure in the natural monument ‘Cuevas de Fuentes de León’ (Fuentes De León, Badajoz) – Elena Garrido Fernández, Beatriz Gavilán, Hipólito Collado, José Ramón Bello ; Painting the Neolithic landscape of the Amblés Valley: Schematic Art, landmarks and symbolic territories of Central Iberia – Pilar Zapatero Magdaleno, Elisa Guerra Doce ; Bronze Age hoards from the Carpathian Basin to the French Atlantic coast: European similarities and regional specificities – Hélène Blitte

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Marie Besse is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Geneva and is Director of the Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology at the same university. ; François Giligny is Professor of Archaeological Methodology at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

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