Chris Fowler - The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

Edited by

CHRIS FOWLER, JAN HARDING,

and

DANIELA HOFMANN

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Cover image: anthropomorphic figurine in kaolinite, 40003500 BC, from Cuccuru SArriu (Cabras). National Archeological Museum, Cagliari, Sardinia.
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THIS book is an ambitious project, involving over 70 authors working in more than 45 different institutions in 15 countries. We would like to thank all the authors for their hard work. A number of contributors agreed to co-author chapters with specialists they had not worked with before, sometimes based in different countries, and we have been delighted with the degree of cooperation and collaboration between them. This has been vital in producing a series of chapters that work across the national and regional boundaries which have often deflected archaeologists from synthesis at a scale that matches that of Neolithic phenomena. With a work of this scope, it is perhaps inevitable for delays to occur, and we would like to thank all contributors for their patience during this process.

First conceived in 2007, the Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides summaries of key debates that are ongoing and will remain current over coming years. The future is bright and exciting, and the chapters in the volume aim to function as valued waypoints, marking out how that future looks now and outlining how scholars have arrived at their present positions. Many authors reflect on emerging and future research at the time of writing; some have marked their chapters with a date stamp indicating the last time that content was updated to put it in precise context, but all of the trends and trajectories identified remain valid at the time of press. Nonetheless, the European Neolithic is a very dynamic field of study, with every year yielding further projects on varied aspects of life in this period; just in the lifetime of the production of this volume there have been numerous significant developments in radiocarbon dating and chronologies, palaeo-genetics, and the application of stable isotope analyses, to name just a few. No such work can be exhaustive, but this volume aims to be highly representative and as comprehensive as possible, both in terms of the regions and material covered and analytical methods and interpretative approaches.

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We would like to thank Hilary OShea for commissioning the volume, three anonymous reviewers of the initial proposal for their constructive comments, Taryn Das Neves, Annie Rose, and Michael Dela Cruz at OUP for producing the hard copy and online versions of the book, and Sivaraman G, Janish Ashwin, and Prashanthi Nadipalli, Sunoj Sankaran at Newgen for their work with the copy-editing.

CHRIS FOWLER, JAN HARDING, AND DANIELA HOFMANN

TONY BROWN, GEOFF BAILEY, AND DAVE PASSMORE

JOHANNES MLLER

JEAN GUILAINE

WOLFRAM SCHIER

ANNE TRESSET

STEPHEN SHENNAN

JOHN CHAPMAN

CAROLINE MALONE

DETLEF GRONENBORN AND PAVEL DOLUKHANOV

NICK THORPE

PL RACZKY

DEMETRA PAPACONSTANTINOU

JONATHAN LAST

FRANCESCO MENOTTI

ANICK COUDART

KENNETH BROPHY

MATS LARSSON

RICK SCHULTING

AMY BOGAARD AND PAUL HALSTEAD

LSZL BARTOSIEWICZ AND MALCOLM LILLIE

PETER ROWLEY-CONWY AND TONY LEGGE

DIMITRIJ MLEKU

ROY LOVEDAY

MARJORIE DE GROOTH

MARTA CAPOTE AND PEDRO DAZ-DEL-RO

GABRIEL COONEY

MIHAEL BUDJA

JOACHIM PECHTL

JOHANNES MLLER AND RICK PETERSON

MARC VANDER LINDEN

STRATOS NANOGLOU

JOHN CHAPMAN AND BISSERKA GAYDARSKA

TONY AXELSSON, MORTEN RAMSTAD, AND ANDERS STRINNHOLM

VOLKER HEYD AND KATHARINE WALKER

MARTIN BARTELHEIM AND MARK PEARCE

BENJAMIN W. ROBERTS AND CATHERINE J. FRIEMAN

DUNCAN GARROW

ARKADIUSZ MARCINIAK AND JOSHUA POLLARD

JRG PETRASCH

ROBIN SKEATES

NIELS H. ANDERSEN

VICKI CUMMINGS, MAGDALENA S. MIDGLEY, AND CHRIS SCARRE

SARA FAIRN-JIMNEZ

ANGELO EUGENIO FOSSATI

ANDREW COCHRANE, ANDREW MEIRION JONES, AND KALLE SOGNNES

ROBIN SKEATES

MICHAEL HOSKIN

DUAN BORI

JOHN ROBB

DANIELA HOFMANN AND JRG ORSCHIEDT

KARL-GRAN SJGREN

CHRIS FOWLER AND CHRIS SCARRE

ALASDAIR WHITTLE

JULIAN THOMAS

KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN

Niels H. Andersen Moesgaard Museum, Moesgaard, Denmark

Tony Axelsson Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Geoff Bailey Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK

Martin Bartelheim Institut fr Ur- und Frhgeschichte und Archologie des Mittelalters, Eberhard Karls Universitt Tbingen, Germany

Lszl Bartosiewicz Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Etvs Lornd University Budapest, Hungary

Amy Bogaard School of Archaeology, Oxford University, UK

Duan Bori Department of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University, UK

Kenneth Brophy