| Rural Settlement: Relating Buildings, Landscape, and People in the European Iron Age Contributor(s): Cowley, Dave (Editor), Fernández-Götz, Manuel (Editor), Romankiewicz, Tanja (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9088908184 ISBN-13: 9789088908187 Publisher: Sidestone Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.2" W x 10.9" (2.02 lbs) 240 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there is a need to reincorporate 'rural life' or rurality into these discussions of how people lived. This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms - the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands - to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies. The 29 papers in this volume discuss the disposition, form and organisation of rural settlements, as well as underlying social and economic networks, illustrating both the variability between regions, and also common themes in cultural, economic and social interactions. This volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research, presenting new results for the Iron Age specialist as well as a wider audience interested in the rich tapestry of rural settlement in Europe. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fernandez-Gotz, Manuel: - Manuel Fernández-Götz is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, Executive Board Member of the European Association of Archaeologists, and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology 2016. His research focuses on Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and the archaeology of the Roman conquest.Romankiewicz, Tanja: - Tanja Romankiewicz is a Research Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Developing from her PhD on the complex roundhouses of the Scottish Iron Age, supervised by Ian Ralston, she currently investigates prehistoric and Roman architectures more widely across northwest Europe, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. |