Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjlland, Denmark: The Archaeology of the T [Hardcover]

This volume summarizes 30 years of fieldwork in Denmark, some of the evidence for the spread of agriculture and the Neolithic into Scandinavia and some opinions about the origins of agriculture. It is intended to be both academic and personal and to describe the actual process of research, because most projects involve elements of both. There is an introduction to each chapter that relates some of the more personal aspects of the research and the bulk of each chapter will be a more technical scientific report on our investigations. Each chapter will deal with one of the components of the project - survey, testing and excavations. We excavated eight sites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic that are discussed in this volume. The concluding chapter summarizes our research in the area and proffers opinions on a variety of archaeological subjects, with visits to climate change, seasonality and sedentism, hunter-gatherer complexity, aDNA, inequality and the origins and spread of agriculture.A personal account chronicling over 30 years of excavation and survey projects investigating the MesolithicNeolithic transition in Denmark and demonstrating the process of research.Lively personal account and digest of 30 years' work by one of America's leading authorities on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in NW EuropeChronicles the development of research ideas, methods and application of new scientific approaches through the lens of a major program of fieldwork and analysisSummarizes key elements in our understanding of the MesolithicNeolithic transition in Denmark and its wider implicationsPreface1. An Introduction  Setting the Table2. Field Survey3. Site Testing4. Smakkerup Huse5. Trustrup6. Dragsholm and B?gebjerg7. F?revejle8. Asn?s Havnemark9. ConclusionsReferencesGB