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Mot en ny värld. English
Paths towards a new world : Neolithic Sweden / Mats Larsson ; with Geoffrey Lemdahl and Kerstin Lidén.
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Title:[Mot en ny värld. English]
Paths towards a new world : Neolithic Sweden / Mats Larsson ; with Geoffrey Lemdahl and Kerstin Lidén.
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Author/Creator:Larsson, Mats, 1951- author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Lemdahl, Geoffrey, 1955- author.
Lidén, Kerstin, author.
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Published/Created:Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: GN776.22.S8 L3713 20114
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Neolithic period--Sweden.
Sweden--Antiquities.
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Description:v, 158 pages ; 25 cm
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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ISBN:9781782972570
1782972579
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Environmental History / Geoffrey Lemdahl
Geological archives
Methods of analysis
Pollen analysis
Plant microfossil analysis
Analysis of bone and shell remains
Insect analysis
Dating
Examples of palaeoecological applications
Suggested readings
2. Mesolithic Period and Stone Age hunters
last hunters
Late Mesolithic
a few trends
Suggested readings
3. From Hunter to Farmer
Northern Europe
Paths towards a new world
early farmers and their contemporaries
Time and artefacts
What was life like for the early farmers?
Settlement trends
What did they eat?
Stone Age food
4. Dead and the Afterlife
Long barrows
Flat graves
Dolmens
Doserygg (Dolmen Ridge)
Meeting places for the living and the dead
Sarup structures
Burnt axes and ceremonial deposits
Early Neolithic
a few trends
Suggested readings
5. Science and the Neolithic / Kerstin Liden
Domestication
Adaptation
Kinship
future
Isotopes
Diet
Mobility
future
Suggested readings
6. Time of Change
Farmers and seal hunters
Time and objects
Settlements and houses
dead and the afterlife
Sarup structures
Seal hunters
settlement at by
Frakenronningen
afterlife
Seal hunters or...?
Alvastra pile dwelling
So, who were these seal hunters?
Changes and new times
7. New Manners and Customs
Battle Axe Culture
Events in North Sweden
Graves, dwellings and battle axes
Flint and stone
Preparing the dead
burial customs
Houses for the dead
Houses for the living
Trends in settlements
Palisades and timber circles
Crop growing and livestock
Suggested readings
8. Longhouses and Stone Cists
Daggers, sickles and arrowheads
House and home
Late Neolithic dwellings
main features
Colonization phase or...?
Stone cists and earthen graves
Cremation graves
Flat ground graves
Late Neolithic trends
Suggested readings.