| Neolithic Bodies Contributor(s): Bickle, Penny (Editor), Sibbesson, Emilie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785709011 ISBN-13: 9781785709012 Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| LCCN: 2018947537 |
| Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.6" W x 9.3" (0.85 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference 2014, captures the variety of debates developing across research into the Neolithic bodies of the Near East and Europe. Papers are divided into three themes: living bodies, the body in death, and the representation of the body. In the first section, papers present new research assessing skeletal evidence alongside new interpretations of the body in the Southern British Neolithic to examine the lived experience of the body in the Neolithic. The second theme illustrates the variety of approaches arising from the study of death and burial, focusing on the many different ways the dead were treated during the Neolithic. The third theme examines the body as it is represented in Neolithic art, through artifacts and the stone stele found in Western and Mediterranean Europe. The volume begins with an introduction to the recent developments in the field and concludes with a discussion chapter from Julian Thomas, which sets an agenda for future studies on this theme. The approaches taken in the papers presented here bridge many different methodologies, ranging from theoretical treatises to methodological debates. Overall, the volume presents the study of the body in the Neolithic as a contested site, at which overlapping research themes meet, and addresses the insights provided by thinking about past bodies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sibbesson, Emilie: - Emilie Sibbesson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. She obtained her PhD from the University of Southampton. Her research interests focus on food and agricultural history, the history of science, and material culture studies, including food technology, prehistoric ceramics, human-plant interaction and the history and use of museum collectionsBickle, Penny: - Penny Bickle is a lecturer in archaeology at the Univerity of York. She holds a PhD from the University of Cardiff. The main focus of her research is Neolithic Europe, especially in the application of bioarchaeological methods to various sites and time periods to inform on issues of identity and social diversity, and how we can use burial practices to uncover the social lives and lifeways of the earliest farmers in Europe. |
