Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern In Memory of Eugen Comsa

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Autor principal: Nikolova, Lolita (-)
Otros Autores: Merlini, Marco, Comsa, Alexandra
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warschau/Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2017.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745438206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments and Editorial Remarks
  • Introduction. Eugen Comşa
  • My Father
  • Memories about Eugen Comşa
  • Childhood Memories about Eugen Comşa
  • Remembering about Eugen Comşa
  • Short Biography of Eugen Comşa
  • Selected Publications by Eugen Comşa
  • Monographs
  • Articles
  • 1 Food Production Modes in Neolithic Anatolia and the Neolithization of the Balkans
  • Bibliography
  • 2 The Neolithic Site at Čatež-Sredno Polje
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Scope of Paper
  • 2.3 The Site at Čatež-Sredno Polje
  • 2.4 The Stone Tools
  • 2.5 The Ceramics
  • 2.6 Considerations
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Building and Burning: The Construction and Combustion of Chalcolithic Dwellings in the Lower Danub
  • 3.1 Introduction: The Problem
  • 3.2 The Diversity of Prehistoric Architecture
  • 3.3 The Building Process
  • 3.3.1 Foundation Trenches
  • 3.3.2 Walls' Wooden Structure
  • 3.3.3 Wattle and Daub
  • 3.3.4 Water and Construction
  • 3.3.5 Wooden Platform
  • 3.3.6 Ceiling and Roof
  • 3.3.7 Walls' Finishing
  • 3.3.8 Ovens
  • 3.4 The Burning Process
  • 3.5 Burning the House: A Reverse Process of Construction
  • 3.6 Conclusion: The Importance of the Experimental Approach
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Tărtăria Tablets: The Latest Evidence in an Archaeological Thriller
  • 4.1 The Background: The Script-Like Signs Found at Turdaş and Vinča, Troy and Knossos
  • 4.2 Tărtăria Tablets as the Icon on the Possibility of a European Neolithic Writing
  • 4.3 A Pivotal but Questionable Discovery
  • 4.3.1 Four Stages for an Investigation
  • 4.4 A Magic-Religious Complex Discovered and Lost
  • 4.5 Why the Tărtăria Tablets are Dubiously Dated Archaeological Artifacts
  • 4.5.1 The Gossip about Radiocarbon Dating
  • 4.5.2 The Vague Stratigraphy of the Tablets Inside the Pit.
  • 4.5.3 The Uncertain Location of the Pit Inside the Stratigraphy of Vlassa's Dig
  • 4.6 The Transylvanian Tablets as the Focal Point of a Controversy on the Chronology of European Preh
  • 4.6.1 Scholars Acknowledging either the Vinča-Turdaş or Vinča Assumption of the Tablets and the Radi
  • 4.6.2 Scholars Reconciling the Tablets with Radiocarbon Dates Maintain that they could have been Int
  • 4.6.3 Scholars Questioning the Authenticity of the Tablets
  • 4.7 Tărtăria Tablets as a Case of Serendipity
  • 4.8 Are the Famous Tărtăria Tablets Infamous?
  • 4.9 The Radiocarbon Dating of the Human Bones Found with the Tablets
  • 4.10 The Enigma of the Charred Human Being, the Cultic Sacrifice and the Cannibalistic Ritual
  • 4.11 The Puzzle of the Corpse's Identity
  • 4.11.1 Sex and Age
  • 4.11.2 The Height
  • 4.11.3 The Anthropological Type
  • 4.11.4 Paleopathologic Aspects
  • 4.11.5 The Posture
  • 4.12 We are not Dealing with a Ritual Pit and a Votive Deposit but with a Consecrated Grave of a Nov
  • 4.13 Milady Tărtăria and her Casket with Magic Tools
  • 4.14 Transylvanian Tablets and the Sacred Script for Initiates
  • 4.15 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 5 About the Prehistoric Burial Rites, Rituals and Anthropological Data in Dobroudja (Eneolithic-Iron
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Archaeological Data
  • 5.2.1 Early Eneolithic Period
  • 5.2.1.1 Hamangia Culture
  • 5.2.2 The Transitional Period to the Bronze Age and the Bronze Age
  • 5.2.2.1 Cernavodă III
  • 5.2.2.2 The Tumular Burials
  • 5.2.3 Early Iron Age (Hallstatt Period)
  • 5.2.3.1 Babadag Culture
  • 5.3 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 6 A Copper Age Workshop for Gold at Cheile Turzii, Peştera Ungurească (Turda Canyon, Hungarian Cave)
  • 6.1 Location
  • 6.2 Short History
  • 6.3 Stratigraphy
  • 6.4 The Horizon with "Pastilatte Handles Pottery"/Scheibenhenckel-Late Bodrogkeresztúr
  • 6.5 The Construction.
  • 6.6 The Oven
  • 6.7 The Archaeological Material
  • 6.8 The Gold Jewelry
  • 6.9 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 7 Towards the Theory of Social Status: Cultural Parameters of Secure Social Status in Prehistory (a
  • 7.1 Setting
  • 7.2 Towards the Sociological Theory of Social Status
  • 7.2.1 Social Position and Social Status
  • 7.2.2 Formal and Non-formal Social Status
  • 7.2.3 Social Status is Mobile
  • 7.2.4 Social Status and Social Class
  • 7.2.5 Segmentation and Stratification, Ordinary and Elite
  • 7.2.6 Theoretical Synthesis
  • 7.3 Towards the Cultural Parameters of Secure Social Status in Prehistory
  • 7.3.1 Houses and Secure Status
  • 7.3.2 Burials in Settlements as Accumulation of Wealth
  • 7.3.3 Prehistoric Figurines and Secure Status
  • 7.3.4 Metal and Accumulation of Wealth
  • 7.3.5 Sedentarization and Mobility, and Secure Status
  • 7.3.6 Wealth and Secure Status
  • 7.3.7 Health and Social Status
  • 7.3.8 The Wealth of Learning
  • 7.3.9 The Social Mind and Security
  • 7.4 Social Complexity and Social Status: Yunatsite Culture Case Study
  • 7.5 Conclusive Summary
  • Bibliography
  • 8 The Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements in Romanian Dobroudja
  • 8.1 The Early Bronze Age
  • 8.2 The Middle and Late Bronze Age: The Coslogeni Culture
  • 8.2.1 The Range
  • 8.2.2 The Origin
  • 8.2.3 The Evolution
  • 8.2.4 The Habitats
  • 8.2.4.1 The Settlements
  • 8.2.4.1.1 The Types of Settlements
  • 8.2.4.1.2 The Location of the Settlements
  • 8.2.4.1.3 Size
  • 8.2.4.2 The Houses
  • 8.2.4.2.1 Types of Houses
  • 8.2.4.2.2 The Fire Installations
  • 8.2.4.2.2.1 Hearths
  • 8.2.4.2.3 The Metallurgical Installations
  • 8.2.4.3 The Pits
  • 8.2.4.3.1 Domestic and Storage Pits
  • 8.2.4.3.2 Ritual Pits
  • 8.3 The Iron Age. The Babadag Culture
  • 8.3.1 The Range
  • 8.3.2 The Origin
  • 8.3.3 The Evolution
  • 8.3.4 The Human Habitats
  • 8.3.4.1 The Settlements.
  • 8.3.4.1.1 Location
  • 8.3.4.1.2 Settlement Types
  • 8.3.4.1.3 Size
  • 8.3.4.2 The Dwellings
  • 8.3.4.2.1 Pithouses and Semi-Pithouses
  • 8.3.4.2.1.1 Shape
  • 8.3.4.2.1.2 Size
  • 8.3.4.2.1.3 Orientation
  • 8.3.4.2.1.4 Depth
  • 8.3.4.2.1.5 Using Time
  • 8.3.4.2.1.6 The Pithouses Fitting Outs
  • 8.3.4.3.2 Surface (Ground) Constructions
  • 8.3.4.3.2.1 Shape
  • 8.3.4.2.2.2 Size
  • 8.3.4.3 The Fire Installations
  • 8.3.4.3.1.1 Location
  • 8.3.4.3.1.1 Shape
  • 8.3.4.3.2 Kilns
  • 8.3.4.4 The Pits
  • 8.3.4.4.1 Shape
  • 8.3.4.4.2 Size
  • 8.3.4.4.3 Functionality
  • 8.4 Some Concluding Remarks
  • 8.4.1 List A. Possible, Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlements in Dobroudja
  • 8.4.2 List B. The Coslogeni Culture in Dobroudja
  • 8.4.3 List C. The Settlements of the Babadag Culture
  • Bibliography
  • 9 Figurative Representations on the Phalerae Found between the Ural, the Caucasus ... and the Balkan
  • 9.1 Diffusion Region
  • 9.2 Archaeological Contexts
  • 9.3 Materials
  • 9.4 Cultural Environment
  • 9.5 Chronology
  • 9.6 Techniques
  • 9.7 Shapes and Sizes
  • 9.8 Inventory Associations
  • 9.9 Ornamentation Types
  • 9.10 Possible Interpretations
  • 9.11 List of Discoveries with Figurative Representations
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Index.