Living Well Together?: Settlement and Materiality in the Neolithic of South-east and Central EuropeDouglass Whitfield Bailey, A. W. R. Whittle, Daniela Hofmann Living Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic. Each paper makes a significant contribution to existing knowledge about the period, and the book, like its companion (Un)settling the Neolithic (Oxbow 2005) will be a benchmark text for work in this region. The reports in Living Well Together? play out the critical questions posed in the earlier volume: how should one interpret settlement; what of the difference between tells and flat sites; what do we mean by permanent occupation; can we avoid the assumptions that underlie claims for year-round residence or seasonal occupation; why, in some regions and at some times, did people maintain residence for so many generations that monumental tell settlements grew to dominate the visual and social landscape; what would a viewshed analysis of tells reveal; what are the dynamics of households in Neolithic Greece; how should we see the emergence of pottery in terms of material culture; and what were the origins of the LBK, and how can we understand its development? The volume's authors have succeeded in attacking existing thought, in provoking new discussion and in creating new paths to understanding the nature of human existence in the Neolithic. Together they set a new agenda for studying the Neolithic across and beyond southeastern and central Europe. |
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early settlement in the eastern Marmara region | 8 |
a pattern of landscape occupation in the Lower Danube | 28 |
Late Neolithic spatial differentiation at PolgárCsőszhalom eastern Hungary | 35 |
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analysis Andreescu Archaeology Bailey Bogaard burials burnt Bylany Cambridge Carpathian Basin ceramic Chapman charcoal circular ditch clay communities context cultivation dates daub deposits Divostin Draşovean earliest LBK early LBK early Neolithic Ecsegfalva Endrőd evidence excavations external settlement figurine floodplain floor Foeni Foeni-Salaş Greenfield groups Gumelnița culture Gura Baciului horizontal settlement household houses Hungarian Plain Hungary Ilıpınar Kalicz Körös Körös culture landscape late Neolithic layer Lazarovici Lengyel culture Lenneis Linear Pottery culture located Locus Lüning Makkay material culture Menteşe Mesolithic millennium cal BC mound Neolithic settlement Obre occupation Oxbow Oxford patterns Phase pit-houses pits Polgár-Csőszhalom Prehistoric Raczky radiocarbon Rakitovo region River Romania Roodenberg Schier Sesklo sherds sixth millennium cal social south-east Europe southern Romania Spataro spatial Starčevo structures suggests symbolic Teleorman County tell settlements temper Tisza Transdanubia Tringham Uivar un)settling the Neolithic valley Vedrovice vessels viewshed village Vinča Vinča culture Vităneşti Whittle