文档介绍：The Archaeology of People
Alasdair Whittle’s new work argues powerfully for plexity and fluidity of life
in the Neolithic, through bination of archaeological and anthropological case
studies and current theoretical debate.
The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great
Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of
southern Britain. Familiar terms such as individuals, agency and structure are dis-
cussed, but Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful.
Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which simultaneously constituted
Neolithic existence in concrete plicated situations: the web of daily routines,
group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes
to the past.
The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic
offering insights for readers at every level.
Alasdair Whittle is a research professor in the School of History and Archaeology at
Cardiff University. His previous publications include Europe in the Neolithic: the
creation of new worlds (1996) and (with Joshua Pollard and Caroline Grigson) The
Harmony of Symbols: the Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire (1999).
The Archaeology of People
Dimensions of Neolithic life
Alasdair Whittle
First published 2003
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 2003 Alasdair Whittle
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