ISBN:
9783031533143
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9783031533136
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (367 p.)
Series Statement:
Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling
Keywords:
Archaeology
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Archaeological transformation studies
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Human-environment interaction
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Social archaeology of prehistoric societies
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Transformations in human history
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Integrative archaeology
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Modelling past transformations
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Combining quantitative and qualitative archaeological research
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Palaeoenvironmental research
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European prehistory
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Prehistoric social and political history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
Abstract:
This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (and in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE. This volume covers the research output produced by the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1266 "Scales of Transformation" – the first interdisciplinary centre to diachronically investigate transformations in past societies with a summary of their individual aspects from the Late Palaeolithic to the Roman Period. Following the introduction, the book is divided into three main sections: In "Identification of anatomies of socio-environmental transformation", the concept of scales of transformations is first explained, and the various parameters of transformational change are identified. This is followed by "Expressions of socio-environmental transformations: from climate preconditions to decision making", in which transformation processes are illustrated with individual examples. The third major part of the book deals with"Perspectives on decision making processes in socio-environmental transformations". In conclusion, the results are framed in a broad temporal framework, and patterns of socio-environmental change are presented across common time frames from the Eastern Mediterranean to Scandinavia. This book is of interest to researchers in archaeology and palaeoecology
Note:
English
