Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe
Contributor(s)
Müller, Johannes (editor)
Kirleis, Wiebke (editor)
Taylor, Nicole (editor)
Collection
DFG - German Research FoundationLanguage
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Archaeological transformation studies; Human-environment interaction; Social archaeology of prehistoric societies; Transformations in human history; Integrative archaeology; Modelling past transformations; Combining quantitative and qualitative archaeological research; Palaeoenvironmental research; European prehistory; Prehistoric social and political historyDOI
10.1007/978-3-031-53314-3ISBN
9783031533143, 9783031533136, 9783031533143Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2024Imprint
Springer Nature SwitzerlandSeries
Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling,Classification
Archaeology