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(un)settling the Neolithic


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(un)settling the Neolithic

Edited by

Douglass Bailey, Alasdair Whittle

and Vicki Cummings

Oxbow Books


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Published by

Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN

Oxbow Books and the individual authors, 2005

ISBN 1-84217-179-8

A CIP record of this book is available from the British Library

This book is available direct from

Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN

(Phone: 01865-241249; Fax: 01865-794449)

and

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www.oxbowbooks.com

Cover image: Disrupting the view, with apologies to Theocharis 2005;

designed by D W Bailey

Printed in the United Kingdom by

Arrowsmith, Bristol


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Dedicated to the memory of John Evans (19412005) who died while this volume was atproof stage. In many ways these papers carry on in the spirit with which John attacked,challenged and questioned much of what we take for granted.


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Contents

List of Contributors .......................................................................................................................................... ix

1. Unsettling the Neolithic: breaking down concepts, boundaries and origins

Douglass Bailey and Alasdair Whittle ................................................................................................... 1

2. Across the border: unstable dwellings and fluid landscapes in the earliest Neolithic of Greece

Kostas Kotsakis ........................................................................................................................................ 8

3. Deconstructing essentialisms: unsettling frontiers of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Balkans

Duan Bori ................................................................................................................................................. 16

4. Can seasonality studies be used to identify sedentism in the past?

Nicky Milner .......................................................................................................................................... 32

5. Resettling the Neolithic: faunal evidence for seasons of consumption and residence at Neolithic

sites in Greece Paul Halstead ............................................................................................................... 38

6. Plain talk: animals, environment and culture in the Neolithic of the Carpathian Basin and adjacent

areasLszl Bartosiewicz ...................................................................................................................... 51

7. Lived experience in the Early Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain

Alasdair Whittle ..................................................................................................................................... 64

8. The role of pottery in agropastoralist communities in early Neolithic southern Romania

Laurens Thissen ..................................................................................................................................... 71

9. Sensing the place: sounds and landscape perception

Steve Mills .............................................................................................................................................. 79

10. Beyond the meaning of Neolithic houses: specific objects and serial repetition

Douglass Bailey ..................................................................................................................................... 90

11. Weaving house life and death into places: a blueprint for a hypermedia narrative

Ruth Tringham ....................................................................................................................................... 98

12. Memory and ordination: environmental archaeology in tells

J.G. Evans ............................................................................................................................................ 112

13. The spatio-temporal organization of the early town at atalhyk

Ian Hodder ........................................................................................................................................... 126

14. Settling the Neolithic: a digestif

Andrew Sherratt ................................................................................................................................... 140


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List of Contributors

Douglass Bailey

School of History and ArchaeologyCardiff University

Colum Drive

Cardiff CF10 3EU

United Kingdom

Lszl Bartosiewicz

Institute of Archaeological Sciences

Lornd Etvs University

Mzeum kort 4/B

1088 Budapest

Hungary

Duan Bori

Department of Archaeology

Cambridge University

Downing Street

Cambridge CB2 3DZ

United Kingdom

John Evans

School of History and Archaeology

Cardiff UniversityColum Drive

Cardiff CF10 3EU

United Kingdom

Paul Halstead

Department of Archaeology and Prehistory

University of Sheffield

Northgate House

Sheffield S1 4ET

United Kingdom

Ian Hodder

Department of Cultural and Social AnthropologyStanford University

Building 110, Main Quad

Stanford, California 94305

United States

Kostas Kotsakis


Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, 54124

Greece

Steve Mills


Cardiff University

Colum Drive

Cardiff CF10 3EU

United Kingdom

Nicky Milner


University of York

The Kings ManorYork YO1 7EP

United Kingdom

Andrew Sherratt

Ashmolean Museum

Oxford OX1 2PH

United Kingdom

Laurens Thissen

2e Jan v/d Heydenstr. 86

1074 XZ Amsterdam

The Netherlands


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Ruth Tringham

Department of Anthropology

University of California at Berkeley

232 Kroeber Hall

Berkeley, California 94720-3710

United States

Alasdair Whittle


Cardiff University

Colum Drive

Cardiff CF10 3EU

United Kingdom

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