Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-53316-7 (ISBN)
This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (and in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE. This volume covers the research output produced by the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1266 "Scales of Transformation" - the first interdisciplinary centre to diachronically investigate transformations in past societies with a summary of their individual aspects from the Late Palaeolithic to the Roman Period.
Following the introduction, the book is divided into three main sections: In "Identification of anatomies of socio-environmental transformation", the concept of scales of transformations is first explained, and the various parameters of transformational change are identified. This is followed by "Expressions of socio-environmental transformations: from climate preconditions to decision making", in which transformation processes are illustrated with individual examples. The third major part of the book deals with "Perspectives on decision making processes in socio-environmental transformations". In conclusion, the results are framed in a broad temporal framework, and patterns of socio-environmental change are presented across common time frames from the Eastern Mediterranean to Scandinavia. This book is of interest to researchers in archaeology and palaeoecology.
Johannes Müller (PhD, University of Freiburg, 1990) is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. He is the founding director of the Johanna Mestorf Academy, Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies' and of the Excellence Cluster 'ROOTS - Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies'. He conducts research on Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, including the challenge of interlinking natural, social, life sciences, and the humanities within an anthropological approach to archaeology. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in international teams, e.g., on Trypillia mega-sites in Eastern Europa, the Late Neolithic tell site of Okoliste in Bosnia-Hercegovina, different Neolithic domestic and burial sites in Northern Germany, and Early Bronze Age sites in Greater Poland. He has also conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork, e.g., in India. Within the Kiel Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes', now the Young Academy of ROOTS, and the Scandinavian Graduate School 'Dialogues of the Past', Johannes Müller also supports international PhD projects.
Wiebke Kirleis is Professor of Environmental Archaeology/Archaeobotany at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. She is deputy speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Scales of Transformation: Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies' and member of the Cluster of Excellence 'ROOTS'. 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.
Nicole Taylor is one of the Scientific Coordinators of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1266 "Scales of Transformation". An archaeologist by training, she received her doctorate as a Marie Curie Fellow in the EU project "Forging Identities: The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe". Her research has focused on the European Bronze Age, primarily in Central Europe, with foci on settlement archaeology and questions on prehistoric identities through the combination of social and isotopic analyses.
Preface
Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller
1. New Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Past SocietiesWiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller
Part 1: Identification of Anatomies of Socio-environmental Transformation
2. Scales of Abstraction: The Kiel Conceptual Approach from Heterogeneous Data to Interpretations
Nicole Taylor, Christoph Rinne, Jan Piet Brozio, Jutta Kneisel, Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth, Jos Kleijne, Hermann Gorbahn, Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller
3. Conceptualising an Anatomy of Transformations: DPSIR, Theorisation, Semiotics and Emergence
Artur Ribeiro, Claas Lattmann, Jan-Eric Schlicht, Bernhard Thalheim, Shikharani Sabnis, Victoria Alliata, Konrad Ott
4. Indicators of Transformation Processes: Change Profiles as a Method for Identifying Indicators
Franziska Engelbogen, Oliver Nakoinz, Daniel Knitter, Camilla Zeviani, Simon Stoddart, Steffen Strohm, Gerrit Günther, Victoria Alliata, Ulrike Löptien
Part 2: Expressions of Socio-environmental Transformations: From Climate Preconditions to Decision-making
5. Patterns of Socio-economic Cultural Transformations in Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies on the Central Northern European PlainJan Piet Brozio, Jutta Kneisel, Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Julian Laabs, Ingo Feeser, Artur Ribeiro, Sebastian Schultrich
6. Cereal Agriculture in Prehistoric North-Central Europe and South-East Iberia: Changes and Continuities as Potential Adaptations to Climate
Julien Schirrmacher, Ingo Feeser, Dragana Filipovic, Hans-Peter Stika, Merle Oelbüttel, Wiebke KirleisPart 3: Perspectives on Decision-making Processes in Socio-environmental Transformations
7. Creation of Cultural Landscapes: Decision-making and Perception within Specific Ecological Settings
Walter Dörfler, Stefan Dreibrodt, Berit Eriksen, Ingo Feeser, Daniel Groß, Robert Hofmann, Artur Ribeiro, Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth, Frank Schlütz, Markus Wild
8. Depicting Trypillia: Emergence and Transformation of the Realistic Style Lyudmila Shatilo and Robert Hofmann
9. Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory
Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Julian Laabs, Maria Wunderlich, Robert Hofmann, Henny Piezonka, Patric-Alexander Kreuz, Shikharani Sabnis, Jan Piet Brozio, Caitriona Dickie, Martin FurholtConclusions: Ancient Change in Europe 10. Overarching Patterns of Ancient Transformation in Europe
Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, Jutta Kneisel, Wolfgang Rabbel
List of Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling |
| Zusatzinfo | XXI, 367 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Schlagworte | Archaeological transformation studies • Combining quantitative and qualitative archaeological research • European Prehistory • Human-Environment interaction • Integrative archaeology • Modelling past transformations • open access • Palaeoenvironmental research • Prehistoric social and political history • Social archaeology of prehistoric societies • Transformations in human history |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-53316-X / 303153316X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-53316-7 / 9783031533167 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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