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• Title:Big men or chiefs? : rondel builders of neolithic Europe / Jaroslav Řídký (and six others).
  
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• Author/Creator:Řídký, Jaroslav, 1976- author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2019.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN776.2 .R54 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Neolithic period--Europe, Central.
  Neolithic peoples--Europe, Central.
  Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe, Central.
  Europe, Central--Antiquities.
  
• Description:viii, 193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:If there is a feature of the Central European Neolithic period that deserves increased attention of researchers and all those with interest in prehistory, it is circular architecture of the dimensions of many tens of metres, from which only negative imprints of the ditches and imprints of posts in the form of postholes or narrow trenches are preserved to this day. The reason is that it offers quite a different insight into the skills and interpersonal relationships of ancient societies that lived in Europe in the first half of the fifth millennium BC. The authors ask whether these structures, most often termed rondels, can be regarded as 'architecture of power' - the first clear evidence of thought-out power strategies of some individuals or their groups. Using anthropological terms - were they skilful and exceptional entrepreneurs with an ad hoc status (such as Big Men) living in egalitarian/segmented communities, or rather powerful Chiefs living in rank and hereditary based societies/chiefdoms?0.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:1789250269 hardback
  9781789250268 hardback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Jaroslav Ridky
  2. Traditional and archaic societies
  problems linked to the search for social and power attributes in the archaeological record / Jaroslav Ridky'
  3. maelstrom of hypotheses
  origin, spread, function / Jaroslav Ridley
  4. Rondel research methodologies, the state of research and our data base / Jaroslav Ridley
  5. Rondel settlement case studies / Pavel Burgert
  6. Rondels
  structural elements, original appearance and construction / Jaroslav Ridley
  7. Radiocarbon dating in action / Marketa Koncelova
  8. What is in the neighbourhood? A summary of rondel regions, microregions, settlement patterns and site layouts / Marketa Koncelova
  9. closer look
  settlement patterns and site layouts of the STK in Bohemia / Radka Sumberova
  10. Big Men or Chiefs? The limits of archaeological sources / Petr Kvetina.