Case, H. (1969). Neolithic explanations. Antiquity 43. Vol 43, pp. 176-186.
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Neolithic explanations | ||||||||
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Antiquity 43 | ||||||||
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Antiquity | ||||||||
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43 | ||||||||
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176 - 186 | ||||||||
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A detailed analysis of the process and means by which our islands were settled in early Neolithic times seeks to explain why exact European prototypes for our material are so hard to find. The observed attributes of our three early groups may indicate one basic Seine-Maas stock which acquired a large variety of customs via complex and frequent seasonal movements of small, wide-ranging bands. Settlement of these islands was probably protracted, with exploratory bands followed by transhuming herdsmen, in turn followed by complete migrant communities. These eventually evolved into stable adjustment, the form visible to us, but remained open to multiple influences through continuing seasonal movements for gift-exchange and exogamy. Long-distance diffusion (eg spread of passage graves) would arise from the more ambitious movements. Transport by land would need slide cars and sledges; by sea, skin boats of umiak type. Pottery, the product of settled communities, is less liable to show direct European links than, say, the arrowheads needed at all phases of settlement. | ||||||||
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1969 | ||||||||
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05 Dec 2008 |