Neolithic revolution
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- Created on: 09-02-16 14:26
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- The Neolithic revolution-Early to middle Neolithic. 4500-2500BC
- Long barrows
- General womb like structure
- Swollen rebirth and fertility of land
- Give remains back to land from which they came
- Ancestors watch over the crops and ensure that it is a good harvest.
- Give remains back to land from which they came
- Swollen rebirth and fertility of land
- West Kennet
- Usually house excarnated remains
- Sometimes bones removed and used and then put back
- West Kennet
- Structured burial-West Kennet like bones together etc.
- Sometimes bones removed and used and then put back
- General womb like structure
- Different levels of development throughout Europe
- Arrival of agriculture is classic sign of Neolithic-gradual introduction though. Neolithic comes at different times across Europe.
- Different levels of development throughout Europe
- Diffusionist logic as most of domesticates have SW Asian origin.
- Britain
- Higher temp than present
- Sea level roughly at current level.
- Elm decline-climate change? Forest clearing for cattle?
- More open country.
- Britons themselves
- Hunter-gathers to farmers. hunter-gardener transition period.
- More permanent settlements formed where ground more easily tilled.
- Changing view of the world from dependence on materials to focus on hard labour.
- Agriculture provides slack times-use these periods for community building projects-ritual?
- Funery process varies across different areas.
- Hunter-gathers to farmers. hunter-gardener transition period.
- Lake Onega, Russia
- Excavated 1936
- Discover hunter-gathers with material culture
- 1980's British and American archaeologists decided goods showed different groups-rich and richer groups.
- 1995 concluded that differences between graves indicated differences in preservation rather than wealth.
- Different interpretations indicate one important thing-we dig up what we want to find, not necessarily what it actually was.
- 1980's British and American archaeologists decided goods showed different groups-rich and richer groups.
- Long barrows
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