McDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Living in the Landscape
Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker
Edited by Katherine Boyle, Ryan J. Rabett
& Chris O. Hunt
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Contents
Contributors
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Figures
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Tables
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Acknowledgementsxv
Foreword
Part I
Chapter 1
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James Barrett
Introduction
1
Introduction: Frameworks and Landscapes3
Colin Renfrew
Part II
Before the Holocene
Hallam Movius, Helmut de Terra and the Line that Never Was: Burma, 1938
9
11
Chapter 3
First Modern Human Occupation of Europe: The Middle Danube Region as a Case Study
35
Chapter 4
Possible Population Histories in North Cyrenaica during the MSA/Early Upper Palaeolithic
49
Chapter 5
Spatial and Temporal Variation in North African and Southwest Asian
Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Records during Marine Isotope Stage 4
59
Chapter 6
Pleistocene Island Occupation in the Mediterranean:
Insights from a Tied-Biome Approach to Glacial Refugia
83
Chapter 7
Microlithism and Landscape Exploitation along the Cyrenaican Coast between
the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene: A Matter of Continuity 109
Chapter 8
Shorelines, Mangroves and Human Environments in the Coastal Lowlands of
Northeastern Borneo during the Late Quaternary
Chapter 9
Visual Vocabulary of the Landscape: Environmental Exploitation and
Upper Palaeolithic Art137
Part III
Transitions Towards Farming
Chapter 2
Robin Dennell
Philip R. Nigst
Timothy E.G. Reynolds
Lucy Farr and Sacha Jones
Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou and Ryan J. Rabett
Giulio Lucarini and Giuseppina Mutri
Chris O. Hunt and David Gilbertson
121
Liliana Janik
Chapter 10 Neolithic Hunters in the Landscape of Northern Italy
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Chapter 11 Farming comes to Arcadia: Notes on the Neolithic Settlement of Central Europe
161
Chapter 12 Archaeology of the Dog in Borneo: New Evidence from the Everett Collection
in the Natural History Museum, London
171
Chapter 13 Death in the Landscape: The Locality of Ancestors in Neolithic Island Southeast Asia
183
Katherine Boyle
Peter Bogucki
Earl of Cranbrook
Lindsay R. Lloyd-Smith
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Chapter 14 Of Prehistoric Pioneers: The Establishment of the First Sedentary Settlements in the
Mekong Delta Region of Southern Vietnam during the Period 2000–1500 cal. bc209
Philip J. Piper and Marc F. Oxenham
Chapter 15 Under One Roof: People, Crops and Animals in Neolithic North China
227
Chapter 16 The Horse is Man’s Wings: Archaeology, Genetics and the Changing Nature of the
Human–Horse Relationship in Central and East Asia
235
Part IV
Xinyi Liu and Martin Jones
Mim A. Bower, Michael G. Campana, C. Stephen Downes, Elizabeth Barrett and
R. Ellen R. Nisbet
Into the Light of Written History
Chapter 17 Beyond Feasting: Consumption and Lifestyle amongst the Invisible Etruscans
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257
Chapter 18 Landscape and Society: The Making of San Vicenzo’s Mediterranean Valley
267
Chapter 19 Landscapes of Power: Looking In, Looking Out in the Medieval Mediterranean
and Beyond
287
Chapter 20 Castles in the Desert: Living in Libyan Landscapes
299
Chapter 21 Agriculture, Feasting and Social Change in Early Southeast Asia
313
Chapter 22 The Power of Pits: Archaeology, Outreach and Research in Living Landscapes
321
Chapter 23 Investigating Large Landscapes: Constraints and Developing Techniques
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Part V
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Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart, Letizia Ceccarelli, Luana Cenciaioli, Patricia Duff,
Finbar Mccormick, Jacob Morales, Stephen Armstrong, Jennifer Bates, Jeremy Bennett,
Jamie Cameron, Gabriele Cifani, Sheira Cohen, Tiomoid Foley, Francesca Fulminante,
Hettie Hill, Laura Mattacchoni, Skylar Neil, Antonio Rosatelli, David Redhouse and
Saskia Volhard-Dearman
Richard Hodges
Oliver Creighton
David Mattingly
Charles Higham
Carenza Lewis
Charles French
Afterword
Cyprian Broodbank
Index
353
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Contributors
Stephen Armstrong
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast,
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Jamie Cameron
Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Michael G. Campana
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Elizabeth Barrett
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Letizia Ceccarelli
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
James Barrett
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Luana Cenciaioli
Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria,
Piazza G. Bruno 10, 06121 Perugia, Italy.
Email: [email protected]
Jennifer Bates
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Jeremy Bennett
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Gabriele Cifani
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Facoltà
di Lettere e Filosofia, Edificio B, IV piano, via
Columbia 1, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Email: [email protected]
Peter I. Bogucki
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Sheira Cohen
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
Mim A. Bower
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Gathorne Cranbrook
Great Glemham House, Saxmundham, IP17 1LP,
UK.
Email: [email protected]
Oliver Creighton
Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter,
Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE,
UK.
Email: [email protected]
Katherine Boyle
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Robin Dennell
Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter,
EX4 4QE, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Cyprian Broodbank
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
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C. Stephen Downes
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster,
Coleraine Campus, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co.
Londonderry, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Chris O. Hunt
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology,
Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons
Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Patricia Duff
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Liliana Janik
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Lucy Farr
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Martin Jones
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Sacha Jones
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Tiomoid Foley
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast,
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Carenza Lewis
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Charles French
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Xinyi Liu
The Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology,
Washington University in St Louis,
Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, St Louis,
MO 63130-4899, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Francesca Fulminante
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK.
Email: [email protected]
David D. Gilbertson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Lindsay R. Lloyd-Smith
Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University,
35 Baekbum-ro, Mapo-gu, 121-742, Seoul, South
Korea.
Email: [email protected]
Charles Higham
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,
University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054,
New Zealand.
Email: [email protected]
Giulio Lucarini
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Hettie Hill
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Caroline Malone
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast,
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Richard Hodges
American University of Rome, Via Pietro Roselli 4,
00153 Rome, Italy.
Email: [email protected]
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Laura Mattacchioni
Sezione di Scienze Archeologiche, Università degli
Studi, Via Aquilone 7, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
Email: [email protected]
Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
David Mattingly
School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester,
LE1 7RH, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Philip J. Piper
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Hope
Building #14, The Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
Finbar McCormick
School of Geography, Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast,
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Ryan J. Rabett
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Jacob Morales
Departamento Ciencias Históricas, Universidad de
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Pérez del Toro 1, Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas 35003, Spain.
Email: [email protected]
David Redhouse
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Giuseppina Mutri
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Colin Renfrew
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Philip R. Nigst
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK/Department of Human
Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Email: [email protected]
Timothy E.G. Reynolds
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Birkbeck, University of London, Room B.06,
26 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DG, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Antonio Rosatelli
Società Agricola Fondi Rustici Montelabate Srl,
Strada Di Montelabate 3, Piccione, PG 06134, Italy.
Email: [email protected]
Skylar Neil
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK.
Email: [email protected]
R. Ellen R. Nisbet
Department of Biochemistry, University of
Cambridge, Building O, Downing Site, Cambridge,
CB2 1QW, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Simon Stoddart
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Saskia Volhard-Dearman
31 Narcissus Road, West Hampstead, London, NW6
1TL, UK.
Email: [email protected]
Marc F. Oxenham
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Hope
Building #14, The Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
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