European Prehistory
Subtitle: A Survey (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780306467936
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Prehistoric Archaeology; Prehistory; Social Science; History - General History; History: World; Ancient - General; Social Science / Archaeology; Archaeology; General; Antiquities; Antiquities, Prehistoric; Europe; Prehistoric peoples
First sentence: The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire.