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Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe

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ID23404182
AuthorsChris Fowler (0000-0003-3794-9298), Jan Harding, D Hofmann (0000-0003-3538-844X), P A Rowley‐conwy (0000-0002-9494-3151, Durham University), P A Rowley-Conwy, A J Legge (Film Independent)
Year2015
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.013.022
OpenAlexW1782716712
ISBN9780199545841
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited26

Early agriculture in north-west Europe was highly diverse. Sometimes it spread rapidly, at other times it scarcely advanced at all, and in southern Scandinavia it retreated after its initial advance. Linearbandkeramik (LBK) farmers occupied small clearings on loess soils, concentrating on cattle and cereals and hardly exploiting the surrounding forest at all. After more than a millennium agriculture spread into southern Scandinavia; after an initial period in which some settlements contained many wild animals, by the middle Neolithic agriculture was ubiquitous. It did not spread into southern Norway until the late Neolithic, and in the badlands between the loess soils of central Europe and the glacial moraine of southern Scandinavia hunting remained important throughout the Neolithic. In Britain, most regions saw cultivation and domestic animals rapidly come to predominate the economy, but north-western Scotland may have continued hunting, fishing, and gathering until later in the Neolithic.

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Fishing · Geography · Glacier · Human settlement · Loess · Moraine · Period (music) · Physical geography · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Geology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,6
Citation span2016 - 2024 (9)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6
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