Archaeology of Neolithic and Eneolithic in Europe and Asia

Presentation of archaeology of hunters, farmers, herders and metallurgists in Eurasia. Explanation of (1) basic interpretative concepts, models and processes connected with the development and change of economic practices and techniques, technologies of pottery making, metal ores processing and tool making; (2) regional and local chronological sequences and C-14 dating series of individual contexts; (3) stratigraphic sequences; (4) paleoenvironmental changes, and the processes of animal domestication, plant cultivation, and change in dietary patterns, and (5) the population dynamics basics. Presentation of the (6) continental and regional distributions of cultures and their artefact assemblages; (7) characteristics of settlement and grave structures; (8) art practices; (9) symbols and beliefs, and (10) the appearance of writing systems.

Budja M. 2016. Ceramics among Eurasian hunter-gatherers: 32 000 years of ceramic technology use and the perception of containment. Documenta Praehistorica 43: 61-86, 25str. COBISS.SI-ID - 98765312
Cummings V., Jordan P. and Zvelebil M (eds.). 2014. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers Edited by Oxford University Press. Oxford, izbrana poglavja, 50 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 62876514
Croucher K. 2012. Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 50 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 51161442
Fowler C., Harding J. and Hofmann D. (eds.), 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press. Oxford 2015, ), izbrana poglavja, 60 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 57363298
Hodder I. (ed.). 2010. Religion in the Emergence of Civilization. Çatalhöyük as a Case Study. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, izbrana poglavja, 50 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 44975714
Hodder I. 2012. Entangled. An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things. Wiley-Blackwell. Chichester, izbrana poglavja, 20 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 164787715
Pinhasi R. in Stock J. T. (eds.), 2011. Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture. John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Chichester, izbrana poglavja, 30 str. COBISS ID 165626371
Mathieson I. et al . 2015. Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians. Nature 528(7538): 499-505, 6 str. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16152
Colledge S., Conolly J., Dobney K., Manning K., Shennan S. 2013. Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe. Left Coast Press. Walnut Creek, izbrana poglavja 40 str. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=50812…
Schmandt-Besserat D. 1992. Before writing. Vol. I. From counting to cuneiform. Austin, 34 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 145805
The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. 2011. Current Anthropology 52( S4), izbrana poglavja, 50 str. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658481
Zeder M., A. 2015. Core questions in domestication research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112( 11): 3191–3198, 7 str. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501711112

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