How’s Life?: Living Conditions in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BCE - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9088908028 ISBN 13 : 9789088908026

Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age saw many developments in metalworking, social structure, food production, nutrition, and diet. At the same time, networks in Europe intensified and human impact on the environment changed in character. What influence did these transformations have on daily life? Which proxies can researchers use to study these topics?

This volume presents scientific contributions from different fields of expertise within modern archaeology in order to investigate past living conditions through aspects of the archaeological record related to production (e.g. of food and metal), well-being (e.g. diet, health), human relations (e.g. violence), and the local environment (e.g. pollution, waste disposal, and water management). It also critically addresses contemporary graphic representations of Bronze Age living conditions.

This volume compiles papers from a session with the same title organized for an international open workshop of the Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes', entitled 'Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Development of Landscapes IV', which took place in 2017, in Kiel, Germany. Publications detailing overarching core research on subsistence systems, societal transformations, and resilience versus rupture dynamics already exist. With this volume, we aim to provide a closer look at everyday life in past communities.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Life in Action: Metal Production, Health Conditions and Dietary choices

Copper Output, Demand for Wood and Energy Expenditure - Evaluating Economic Aspects of Bronze Age Metallurgy
Johanna Brinkmann

Warriors' Lives. The Skeletal Sample from the Bronze Age Battlefield Site in the Tollense Valley, Northeastern Germany
Gundula Lidke, Ute Brinker, Annemarie Schramm, Detlef Jantzen, Thomas Terberger

Environmental Imposition or Ancient Farmers' Choice? A Study of the Presence of "Inferior" Legumes in the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin (Hungary)
Sonja Filatova, Ferenc Gyulai, Wiebke Kirleis

Part 2. The Place of Living: Routine Activities, the Management of Waste and of Natural Resources

The Fossil Plant remains of the Early Bronze Age site Rothenkirchen on Rügen. Inside Distribution Patterns as a Mirror of Housekeeping
Almuth Alsleben

Waste Disposal In The Bronze Age: Plants In Pits At Wismar-Wendorf, Northern Germany
Dragana Filipović Frank Mewis, Lars Saalow, Jens-Peter Schmidt, Wiebke Kirleis

An Overview of Olive Trees in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Mid-Late Holocene: Selective Exploitation or Established Arboriculture?
Asli Oflaz, Walter Dörfler, Mara Weinelt

On-site Palaeoecological Investigations from the Hünenburg Hillfort-Settlement Complex, with Special Reference to Non-pollen Palynomorphs
Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth, Immo Heske

Part 3. Living the Past: The (Graphic) Representation of Past Living Conditions

Creating an Understanding of Life in and around a Bronze Age House through Science-based Artist Impressions
Yvonne F. van Amerongen

Case Study "How Was Life in Early Bronze Age Bruszczewo" - Archaeology and the View of Prehistory in Reconstruction Images
Jutta Kneisel

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Marta Dal Corso is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of archaeobotany and palynology, interested in the understanding of plant cultivation and use in prehistory and of the relationships between human activities and natural environments. She is currently working at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University (Germany), where she has been assistant to the chair of Environmental Archaeology and taught palynology and phytolith analysis among other classes.

After her bachelor and MA studies at the University of Padova (Italy), she carried out her PhD study in Kiel, on the environment at the time of the Late Bronze Age Terramare civilization in the Po Valley, in Northern Italy. Since some years, she works as research fellow within the CRC 1266 in a project focused on the Copper Age Cucuteni-Tripyllia (or Tripolye) groups in Ukraine and Moldova, where the reconstruction of economic and environmental conditions is necessary to understand the developments related to the earliest large settlements in Europe.

She still investigates the European Bronze Age, with the study of routine activities in southern alpine pile-dwellings (within the cluster of excellence ROOTS) and with the study of the earliest millet finds in Ukraine and adjacent areas in their cultural and economic contexts. A forthcoming study with the DEI-Amman (Jordan), already funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, will concern the preliminary investigation of the environment at Tall Zira'a in northern Jordan. These interdisciplinary research projects stem from international collaborations and brought to several publications, as author and editor. They include the book "How's life? Living conditions in Europe during the 2nd millennium BCE" published with Sidestone. She actively participated in the organisation of conference sessions and workshops and is currently following the organisation of the 12th International Meeting for Phytolith Research.

Wiebke Kirleis is professor of environmental archaeology/archaeobotany at Kiel University, Germany. She is deputy director of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Scales of Transformation: Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies' (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Roots' at Kiel University. As an archaeobotanist, she is interested in all kinds of plant-related human activities, be they subsistence strategies or food processing, with their socio-cultural implications, as well as the reconstruction of human-environment interactions in the past. Geographically, her research areas span from northern Europe all way to Indonesia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidestone Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9088908028
• ISBN 13: 9789088908026
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Éditeur: Dal Corso Marta, Kirleis Wiebke, Kneisel Jutta, Taylor Nicole, Wieckowska-Lüth Magdalena, Zanon Marco
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible