1st Edition
Neolithic Farming in Central Europe An Archaeobotanical Study of Crop Husbandry Practices
By Amy Bogaard
Copyright 2004
226 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.
Debate surrounding the nature of crop husbandry in Neolithic central Europe has focussed on the permanence of cultivation, its intensity and its... Read more
Introduction 1. The Study Area and its Archaeological ackground 2. Models of Crop Husbandry in Neolithic Central Europe 3. The Key Variables of Permanence, Intensity and Seasonality and their Wider Implications 4. Archaeobotanical, Ecological and Statistical Methodology 5. Testing the Four Major Crop Husbandry Models 6. Identification of Separate Ecological Gradients and Specific Crop Husbandry Practices 7. Conclusions: Neolithic Farming in Central Europe
Biography
Amy Bogaard is Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham. Her main research interests are early farming practices and archaeobotany.
"This would be an enormously important and I am sure very widely read addition to the literature on the European Neolithic." - Alastair Whittle, Cardiff University
