Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.12.2026
Herausgeber
Chris Fowler + weitereVerlag
Oxbow Books LimitedSeitenzahl
256
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798888572740
This volume surveys diverse Neolithic European research on kinship, integrating mortuary context, settlements, architecture, and aDNA data to reveal varied social relationships across time and space.
This title, the next in the Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series, presents a selection of case studies from across Neolithic continental Europe, Britain and Ireland as examples of recent and ongoing archaeological research on kinship.
Kinship has often been seen as central to how many societies operated in the past, and there is a very long and complex history of research on it in anthropology. Debate actively continues, centred around whether kinship is essentially a matter of biology or should be seen as a social construct, or some combination of the two. Until fairly recently, archaeology has done very little in detail with kinship, despite its probably central importance in past social relations. The recent development of aDNA research has changed things fundamentally, with prolific studies indicating, for the Neolithic, diverse situations where biological relatedness can be documented, but also others where biological relatedness is either absent or not so prominent. Neolithic studies therefore face the challenge of coming to terms with evident diversity and needing to find nuanced interpretative approaches to kinship; they also have the opportunity to begin to chart detailed trajectories of change.
The coverage of the book will illustrate diversity across time and space, as well as exploring the many approaches now possible to the significance of kinship. It will help to give the archaeological reader a reflective and nuanced understanding of the very broad range of possible approaches to the study of kinship in the past. This is the only book on kinship focusing exclusively on Neolithic Europe, offering readers a wide sample of current and ongoing research across Europe. It will reflect on combining a broad range of evidence; while most of the chapters will be concerned with depositions in the mortuary sphere, and some will make use of aDNA data derived from that sphere, contributions will also cover other dimensions of practice, including settlements, architecture, and material culture.
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