Past societies : human development in landscapes / edited by Johannes M�uller and Andrea Ricci.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Kiel Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes has conducted research on socio-environmental issues of past societies during the last years. From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East, different attempts on the interfluve of environments and societies in landscapes describe certain historical moments and processes in which the interplay of ecological and societal factors is entangled. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional and global scales as well as methodological developments on ecological and societal archives. The selected case studies are linked by the general idea of the ability to integrate discovery, documentation, description and interpretation within the scope of analyses and synthesis. Thus, the interdisciplinary framework of the Kiel Graduate School formed the agenda for a holistic approach. Landscapes of power, transitions during neolithisation processes, maritime and other networks, site formation dynamics, landscapes of identities and the making of heritage are only a few topics included in this book. The closeness of human behaviour in certain environmental conditions becomes obvious despite the often huge distance in time and space. At the same time, one of the strengths of humanistic science becomes apparent: its commitment to a culture of knowledge across borders.

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Intro -- Preface -- Past Societies: Human Development in Landscapes -- Introduction -- Concepts of Human Developments in Landscapes for Past Societies -- Johannes M�uller and Andrea Ricci -- Transitions during Neolithisation Processes in Southern Scandinavia -- New Insights from Faunal Remains and Pottery from the Site Neustadt LA 156 in Northern Germany -- Aikaterini Glykou -- Interaction and Networks in the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture -- Julia Menne

Development of Identification Criteria of Non-Dietary Cereal Crop Products by Phytolith Analysis to Study Prehistoric Agricultural Societies -- Welmoed A. Out -- Early Agriculture in Southern Peru -- Hermann Gorbahn and Markus Reindel -- Corded Ware and Bell Beaker between Rhine and Saale: Theories, Methods and Results -- Ralph Gro�mann -- Settlement History and Tell Formation Processes in the Birecik and Carchemish Sectors of the Euphrates River -- Andrea Ricci -- Writing the History of 'Peoples without History': The Case of the Zagros in the First Millennium BCE -- Silvia Balatti

Iron Age Landscapes of Power in the Middle Rhine-Moselle Region -- Manuel Fern�andez-G�otz -- Meteorological Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus -- Anne Liewert -- Do as the Romans do? Human-Environmental Interactions in Ancient Southern Latium -- Michael Teichmann and Hans-Rudolf Bork -- Palynological Investigations on the Deposits of a Well Shaft from the Roman Iron Age with Special Reference to Non-Pollen Palynomorphs -- Magdalena Wieckowska-L�uth and Dieter Bischop -- Human-Landscape Interconnections

The D�oberitzer Heide in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 7th-11th century) as a Space of Action between the Appropriation of Material Wealth and the Destruction of the Basis of Existence -- Donat Wehner -- Seafaring of the Hansa to the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland -- The Maritime-Archaeological Potential of the North Atlantic Islands during the Late Hanseatic Period -- Philipp Grassel -- From Salamander to Siren: Landscapes of Identity -- Maren C. Biederbick -- Warscapes: Managing Space on the Western Front, 1914-1918 -- Christoph N�ubel

Ethics in the Practice of Archaeology and the Making of Heritage: Understanding beyond the Material -- Artur Ribeiro and Gustav Wollentz -- Publications in the Series of the Kiel Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes" -- Blank Page

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