People in the Mountains: Current Approaches to the Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes
Edited by Andrzej Pelisiak Edited by Marek Nowak Edited by Ciprian Astalos
Paperback (Published)
(March 2018)
ISBN: 9781784918170
8.07 x 11.42 inches
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This book studies current approaches to the archaeology of mountainous landscapes, presenting research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions it incorporates archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information.
Mountain landscapes were first exploited by farming populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. However, there are controversies regarding when and where these specific types of human behaviour developed as a result of adaptation processes to these special environments. The aim of People in the Mountains: Current Approaches to the Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes is to present research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions we incorporate archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information. The chapters explore, among many other themes, several principal areas of research: environmental history and human impact in mountain environments; specificities of different mountain landscape zones; long-term changes of human activity in different mountain regions, and the origins of such changes; seasonal herding, and short and long-distance transhumance; exploitation of different raw materials e.g. siliceous raw material, salt etc.; mountains as borders, roads and zones of contact; creation of new customs, rights and social relations; symbolic and ritual locations in the mountains; dialogue between different methodological perspectives and analytical methods. The book consists of 15 chapters prepared by 27 authors from 10 countries. The chapter topics cover mountains located in Europe, America and Asia.
"Introduction - by Andrzej Pelisiak, Marek Nowak and Ciprian Astalos
The mountainous landscape as a viable alternative for the Neolithic - by Pawel Valde-Nowak
From people to landscapes. The Fluturnum Project: Archaeology and anthropology in the Tasso-Upper Sagittarius valley (Italy, The Province of L'Aquila - AQ) - by Francesca Romana Del Fattore, Anna Rizzo and Alessandro Felici
Long-range versus short-range prehistoric pastoralism. Potential of palaeoecological proxies and a new record from western Emilia, northern Apennines, Italy - by Lionello F. Morandi and Nicholas P. Branch
An archaeology of the mountains in Maramure?, Romania: the beginning of a long-term project - by Radu-Alexandru Dragoman, Dan Pop, Bogdan Bobina, Marius Ardeleanu, Calin Suteu and Ciprian Astalos
Carpathians: barrier or border? Tiszapolgar, Bodrogkeresztur, Petresti and Trypillia-Cucuteni Cultures - by Taras Tkachuk
The settlement and economy of the prehistoric communities of the Zvolen Basin and surrounding areas in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia) - by Noemi Beljak Pazinova
Recent discoveries in the High Bieszczady Mts. - by Andrzej Pelisiak
Pollen indications of human activity in the Polish Western Carpathians during the Neolithic period - by Marek Nowak
The settlement of the Corded Ware Culture and early phases of the Mierzanowice culture in the Carpathian Mountains - by Pawel Jarosz
Re-fitting the Past - Urn Graveyards in the Carpathian Foothills - by Marta Korczynska and Klaus Cappenberg
The Sudetic resource base in the economy of early medieval societies - by Ewa Lisowska
Beginnings of mountain settlement in Czech Republic - a case study from the Bohemian Forest - by Katarina Kapustka, Matthew Walls and Jan Eigner
An Approach to understand the significance of the Cultural landscape of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India - by Bina Gandhi Deori
Fog, mountain and desert: human-environment interactions in Lomas de Lachay, Peru - by Piotr Kalicki, Tomasz Kalicki and Piotr Kittel "
- Edited by Andrzej Pelisiak
- Edited by Marek Nowak
- Edited by Ciprian Astalos
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