Land-use And Prehistory In South-east Spain (routledge Library Editions: Archaeology) (volume 23)

Reissuing works originally published between 1930 and 1996, this set presents a rich selection of renowned and lesser-known scholarship across the subject. Classic previously out-of-print works are brought back into print here in this set of research, guidance and surveys. It includes works of theory and of practical research, ranging over a wide range of themes from archaeology and place-names to industrial archaeology to the rock art of Africa. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 10 Table of Contents 12 List of tables 14 1 Introduction 16 2 Background and problem 25 The environmental setting 25 Past archaeological research 30 The archaeological sequence 31 Subsistence 39 Theoretical perspectives 43 Problems 46 Notes 49 3 Land-use investigations 50 Methods of site catchment analysis 50 Historical dimensions: the Catastro de la Ensenada 56 Notes 62 4 Geomorphological investigations 63 Soil erosion 64 Studies of individual site settings 77 Erosion: conclusions 92 Water diversion potential 93 5 Site territories 99 La Almoloya 100 Campico de Lébor, La Bastida 102 The Mazarrón sites 106 Vera basin sites 114 Terrera Ventura 125 Los Millares, Cerro Enmedio 129 El Tarajal 134 Cueva de Ambrosio 137 Cerro de las Canteras 140 El Picacho 143 El Malagón 146 Cerro de la Virgen 149 El Culantrillo, Cerro del Gallo, Cuesta del Negro 152 Cueva de la Carigüela, Cerro de los Castellones (Laborcillas), Torre Cardela 158 Cueva de los Murciélagos (Zuheros) 164 Los Castillejos (Montefrío) 168 Cueva de la Mujer, Cueva del Agua 171 Cerro de la Encina 173 Cueva de Nerja 177 Summary 179 Notes 185 6 Comparative analysis and conclusions 187 Testing the irrigation hypothesis 187 Alternatives 196 Conclusions 198 Notes 204 Appendix Correspondence between site territories and Ensenada localities 206 References 209 Index 222 Index of archaeological sites and cultures 222 Index of names 224 General index 227 Based on a major research programme, and originally published in 1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east Spain in terms of emergent social complexity. The cultural evolution of the area had already been considered in terms of influence from the eastern Mediterranean but this book uses site catchment analysis to give an economic baseline for all thirty-five of the better-known prehistoric settlements of the region.Site catchment analysis assumes that people minimised transport costs in production and that ancient and modern resource spaces correspond systematically. This research therefore studied modern land use and combined it with evidence from historical, archaeological and geomorphological investigation. The book shows the increasing social complexity evident in the archaeological record emerging as a result of progressive intensification of agricultural technique. Offering a complete coherent evolutionary model for the archaeological sequence of the region's prehistory, this book is a worthy in-depth study for prehistorians, geographers and anyone interested in the history of the western Mediterranean. This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989 Based on a major research programme, and originally published in 1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east Spain in terms of emergent social complexity. The cultural evolution of the area had already been considered in terms of influence from the eastern Mediterranean but this book uses site catchment analysis to give an economic baseline for all thirty-five of the better-known prehistoric settlements of the region. Site catchment analysis assumes that people minimised transport costs in production and that ancien Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions, besides the more dramatic mysteries associated with the monuments of Easter Island and Stonehenge and the colonization of Polynesia, can all be explored by experiment A comprehensive discussion of what can be established about the culture and daily life of medieval Germany. Besides methodological questions, the author considers what can be learnt about the history of settlement and architecture, of technology, of economic and social matters, of churches and missions, and of population, diet and vegetation. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. Originally published 1989. Antonio Gilman And John B. Thornes, With Stephen Wise. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [194]-206.