Pots, Farmers and Foragers

How pottery traditions shed a light on social interaction in the earliest Neolithic of the Lower Rhine Area

Editor: Bart Vanmontfort, Leendert Louwe Kooijmans, Luc Amkreutz, Leo Verhart

9789087280864 VANMONTFORT

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In Pots, Farmers and Foragers, the contributing 24 European scholars show a new synthesis of the complex interaction of the communities of the western part of the North European Plain during the early Neolithic period.

In the study of the earliest Neolithic stage, pottery plays a key role. The most advanced north-western settlements in the expansion of the central European Linear Pottery culture during the second half of the sixth millennium B.C. is found in the Lower Rhine Area. At the same time this is the northernmost extension of the synchronic and enigmatic pottery groups La Hoguette and Limburg. This volume convincingly states that pottery and its associated habits were among the first of the many new societal aspects to be adopted by neighboring foraging communities.

 

Bart Vanmontfort is research fellow in prehistory at Leuven University. Leendert Louwe Kooijmans is emeritus professor in prehistory, Leiden University. Luc Amkreutz is curator prehistory of the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden. Leo Verhart is curator archaeology and early history of the Limburgs Museum at Venlo.

 

Format: Paperback

Pages: 216

Illustrated: Yes

ISBN Print: 9789087280864

ISBN ePDF: 9789400600065

Published: 28 October 2010

Language: English

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Price 46.50

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