The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy

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Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
List of figures......Page 15
List of tables......Page 21
Preface......Page 23
A Sense of Loyalty......Page 27
Social Reproduction......Page 30
Material Normality......Page 34
From the Point of View of Things......Page 44
Making History: Creativity, Commitment, and Gulliver’s Dilemma......Page 46
The 1st of September, 5000 BC: A Note on Methodology......Page 48
Neolithic Beginnings......Page 50
The World at 5000 BC......Page 53
Neolithic Italy: The Rough Guide......Page 54
Ideal Lives......Page 61
Bodies Themselves: Skeletal Evidence of Social Biology......Page 62
Presencing the Living Group: Model Demography......Page 66
The Represented Body......Page 69
People in Death......Page 82
The Human Career......Page 91
Gender and Its Limits......Page 93
Politics and Difference......Page 96
The Road Ahead......Page 99
3 The inhabited world......Page 101
Places of Life: Houses and Villages......Page 102
Houses and Households......Page 103
From Houses to Villages: Settlement Size and Boundedness......Page 116
Houses, Sites, and the Dead......Page 121
Economy and Frequentation......Page 124
The Perception of Time in the Landscape......Page 128
Cult Sites, Cosmology, and Gender......Page 133
Natural Places and the Inhabitable World......Page 138
People Create Spaces; Spaces Create People......Page 142
4 Daily economy and social reproduction......Page 145
Cuisine......Page 146
Not on the Menu......Page 148
Grains and Legumes: The World of Starches......Page 155
Notes of Flavour......Page 159
Animal Choices......Page 163
The Sociality of Herds......Page 168
Eating: Rhythms and Tastes......Page 170
Cooking......Page 174
Culinary Prehistory: Neolithic Cuisine as Habitus and Taskscape......Page 178
Archaeological Classics......Page 185
Italian Neolithic Pottery: A Social History......Page 187
Skill, Orientation, and the Layering of Local Knowledge......Page 198
The Social Geography of Italian Neolithic Pottery......Page 204
The Lithic Economy in Neolithic Italy......Page 212
The Obsidian “Trade”......Page 218
Obsidian and Cultural Practices: The Alternative View......Page 223
Axe Basics......Page 230
Contexts of Axe Deposition......Page 234
Axe Biographies and Agency......Page 240
A Methodological Note on Artefact Analysis......Page 244
People at the Center of a Decentered Narrative......Page 245
A Quick Recapitulation......Page 247
The Social Senses......Page 252
Unfinished Business: Space, Time, Projects......Page 256
Projects of the Self......Page 263
Difference and the Organization of Value......Page 265
The Commonwealth of People and Things......Page 271
7 Neolithic italy as an ethnographic landscape......Page 276
Spatial Demography......Page 278
Travel, Trade, Warfare......Page 280
Culture Areas and Differing Lifeways......Page 286
Village Farmers......Page 287
Dispersed Farmers......Page 290
Mixed Mountaineers and Lake Villages......Page 291
Interpreting Regional Differences......Page 293
Social Networks: The Calabrian Stentinello World......Page 295
The Social History of Unique Places: Lipari......Page 301
8 The great simplification: large-scale change at the end of the neolithic......Page 312
Historical Practice: Life without a Primum Mobile......Page 316
Temporal Scale, Regional Analysis, and Patterns of History......Page 317
Material Culture and Exchange......Page 321
Settlement and Productive Economy......Page 326
Burial, the Body, and Politics......Page 331
Social Production and Intensifying Pastoralism......Page 337
Place and Relatedness......Page 339
Gendered Bodies......Page 341
Agency, Aesthetics, and the Organization of Value: A New Synaesthesia......Page 343
Always in Transition......Page 346
Re-Reading the Sequence......Page 348
Causality and Spread......Page 352
Coda: Malta – The Road Less Taken......Page 355
Wandering Through Tribespace: The Social Foundations of Prehistoric Italy......Page 360
Notes......Page 369
Bibliography......Page 373
Index......Page 399