Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997: Volume I: Pre- and Protohistory

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Papers in this volume are grouped under following headings: Oases and other forms of agricultural intensification; The visibility of nomads and herders across the archaeological record; The rise and decline of complex societies in Mediterranean Europe during the Middle and Late Bronze Age; Political and cultural frontiers; Archaeology and ethnicity. Sixty-nine authors come from all over Europe and the USA. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Credits Contents Introduction I Bifacciali del Paleolitico Inferiore in Lessinia (VR-I) The Earliest Palaeolithic Industries of the Argo Pontino (Latina, Central Italy) The Role of Magic in the Palaeolithic Mobiliary Art of South-West Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Mesolithic Research in Atlantic Costal Iberia Artifacts Made of Animals' Teeth and Jaws in the Mesolithic of Eastern Europe Towards an Invasionless Model of Indoeuropean Origins: The Continuity Theory Le Immagini Neolitiche dell L'Italia Sud-Oridentale come Simboli ed Archetipi delle Civilta Agricole e Protopastorali Climactic Fluctuations and Neolithic Economic Adaptations in the 4th Millenium BC: A Case Study from South-West Germany Il Contributo delle Isole Minori del Mediterraneo Centrale nella Formazione delle Civilta Prehistoriche: I Casi Eoliano e Maltese Un Contributo all Definizione della Facies Subappenninca: Il sito di Badi di Schiavi (CH) Guerra e Controllo del Territorio in Etruria tra Eta del Bronzo ed Eta del Ferro Death and Rebirth: Religious Aspects of Mortuary Practices in Northwestern Thrace During the Late Iron Age Oases and Other Forms of Agricultural Intensification The Foundation of Early Bronze Age Oases in the Oman Peninsula The Oasis Model: Symbiosis, Intensification, Autopoiesis The Archaeology of Desertification and Floodwater Farming in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan The Visibility of Nomads and Herders Across the Archaeological Record Introduction: Some Problems of Nomadic Studies The Pastoral Neolithic of European Mid Mountains The Development of Pastoral Nomadic Systems in the Southern Levantine Periphery: An Economic Model Based on Archaeological Evidence Celtic/ Scythian Art Connections Prototypes of the Animal Style in Mongolia and Manchuria Osteomorphological Features of Nomadic Riders: Some Examples from Iron Age Populations Located in Southwestern Siberia Protohistorical Pastoralism in the Carpathian Basin: The Zoological Evidence Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Sites in a Middle-Height Mountain Area in the Western Mediterranean: The Ceta Valley (Valencia, Spain) Early Iron Age Nomads of Low Volga Region (Model of Cultural Development) The Nomads of Khwarezm Since the 1st Millenium B.C. to the Middle of the 1st Millenium A.D. Statuses of Eastern Early Iron Age Nomads "Nomadic Steppe" and Wooded Land: Probability and Visibility of Interactions Rise and Decline of Complex Societies and Mediterranean Europe in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Introduction Emergence and Decline of Costal Settlements in Southern Italy from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age L'Insediamento Appenninico di Localita Calcara (Anzano di Puglia - FG). Note di topografia "Off-Site Powerscape": Il Potere "Fuori Porta". Nuovi Orizzonti di Attesa per l'Eta del Bronzo Padana Social and Cultural Decline of Sicani in Western Sicily: The Mokarta Case Poltical and Cultural Frontiers Introduction Frontiere Politiche e Culturali Los Santuarios de la Alta Andalucia en Epoca Iberica: Origen e Implantacion Territorial Frontera, Mercado y Comercio del Cereal de la Chora Emporitana: Mas Castellar de Pontos (Girona, Espana) El Santuario Heroico del Cerro de "El Pajarillo" (Huelma, Jaen) The Spatial Dynamics of Sanctuary Location in Southern Etruria During the Archaic Period Luoghi Scari ai Confini del Territorio di Chiusi ET AT 0.13: Un santuario de confine? Le frontiere degli dei. Osservazioni sui santuari di confine nella Campania antica I Santuari come Indicatori di Frontiera nell'Italia Tirrenica Preromana Discussion Foragers and Farmers: Political, Economical, and Ecological Frontiers in North European Plain Some Remarks on the Contacts Between the Greek and the Hallstatt Culture Considering the Area of the Northern Croatia in the Early Iron Age Interpretando l'assenza; note sul ruolo politico ed economico dell'ager publicus nell'espansione romana Political and Cultural Changes in Moesia as a Frontier Province in 1st Century A.D. Archaeology and Ethnicity Introduction Consumption and Ethnicity in the Interpretation of Cultural Form Ethnical and Interethnical Symbols in Architecture Archaeology and Ethnicity: An Ethnoarchaeological Typology A Mosaic of Culture. An Example of Regional Society from the North European Plain at the Turn of the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age Ethno-Cultural Interferences in the Carpathic Basin During Late Bronze Oral Traditions, Historical Sources, and Archaeological Data: Reconstructing a Process of Ethnogenesis in the Italian Bronze Age Ethnic Development and Political Formation in Sicily Between II and I Millennia B.C. The Case of the Vanishing Celts, or 'What's in a Name?' The Role of Metal Wares in the Genesis of Early Hallstat Cultures in the Carpathian -Danubian-North-Pontic Region Componenti culturali ed etniche dell'occupazione di un sito fortificato tra l'Eta tardoantica e altomedievale: Il caso del castrum di S. Antonino (Finale Ligure, Savona) The Komani-Krue Culture - Another View. An Attempt for the Definition of a Culture and an Ethnic Group as a Contribution to the Political Administration of the Balkans in the Early Middle Ages Index of Authors