Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3031533136
• ISBN-13: 978-3031533143
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham Springer Nature, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461440
• Chủ đề: 1. Archaeological transformation studies; 2. Combining quantitative and qualitative archaeological research; 3. European prehistory; 4. Human-environment interaction; 5. Integrative archaeology; 6. Archaeology

Tóm tắt

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.