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Living in the Landscape Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker McDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS Living in the Landscape Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker Edited by Katherine Boyle, Ryan J. Rabett & Chris O. Hunt Published by: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge, UK CB2 3ER (0)(1223) 333538 (0)(1223) 339336 (Production Office) (0)(1223) 333536 (FAX) [email protected] www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk Distributed by Oxbow Books United Kingdom: Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, UK. Tel: (0)(1865) 241249; Fax: (0)(1865) 794449; www.oxbowbooks.com USA: Casemate Academic, P.O. Box 511, Oakville, CT 06779, USA. Tel: 860-945-9329; Fax: 860-945-9468 ISBN: 978-1-902937-73-1 ISSN: 1363-1349 (McDonald Institute) © 2014 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Cover design by Dora Kemp. Cover image: An archway within Gasr ash-Shahdiyn, a Late Roman fortress located on the main road between Al-Baida and Al-Maj, 4.5 km southwest of the Wadi Kuf bridge, Libya. (Photograph: Ryan Rabett, 2008; details: Paul Bennett). Edited for the Institute by James Barrett (Series Editor) and Anne Chippindale. Printed and bound by Short Run Press, Bittern Rd, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter, EX2 7LW, UK. Contents Contributors vii Figures x Tables xii Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvi James Barrett Part I Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Introduction: Frameworks and Landscapes 3 Colin Renfrew Part II Before the Holocene 9 Chapter 2 Hallam Movius, Helmut de Terra and the Line that Never Was: Burma, 1938 11 Robin Dennell Chapter 3 First Modern Human Occupation of Europe: The Middle Danube Region as a Case Study 35 Philip R. Nigst Chapter 4 Possible Population Histories in North Cyrenaica during the MSA/Early Upper Palaeolithic 49 Timothy E.G. Reynolds Chapter 5 Spatial and Temporal Variation in North African and Southwest Asian Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Records during Marine Isotope Stage 4 59 Lucy Farr and Sacha Jones Chapter 6 Pleistocene Island Occupation in the Mediterranean: Insights from a Tied-Biome Approach to Glacial Refugia 83 Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou and Ryan J. Rabett Chapter 7 Microlithism and Landscape Exploitation along the Cyrenaican Coast between the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene: A Matter of Continuity 109 Giulio Lucarini and Giuseppina Mutri Chapter 8 Shorelines, Mangroves and Human Environments in the Coastal Lowlands of Northeastern Borneo during the Late Quaternary 121 Chris O. Hunt and David Gilbertson Chapter 9 Visual Vocabulary of the Landscape: Environmental Exploitation and Upper Palaeolithic Art 137 Liliana Janik Part III Transitions Towards Farming 147 Chapter 10 Neolithic Hunters in the Landscape of Northern Italy 149 Katherine Boyle Chapter 11 Farming comes to Arcadia: Notes on the Neolithic Settlement of Central Europe 161 Peter Bogucki Chapter 12 Archaeology of the Dog in Borneo: New Evidence from the Everett Collection in the Natural History Museum, London 171 Earl of Cranbrook Chapter 13 Death in the Landscape: The Locality of Ancestors in Neolithic Island Southeast Asia 183 Lindsay R. Lloyd-Smith v 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. bc 209 Philip J. Piper and Marc F. Oxenham Chapter 15 Under One Roof: People, Crops and Animals in Neolithic North China 227 Xinyi Liu and Martin Jones 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 Mim A. Bower, Michael G. Campana, C. Stephen Downes, Elizabeth Barrett and R. Ellen R. Nisbet Part IV Into the Light of Written History 255 Chapter 17 Beyond Feasting: Consumption and Lifestyle amongst the Invisible Etruscans 257 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 Chapter 18 Landscape and Society: The Making of San Vicenzo’s Mediterranean Valley 267 Richard Hodges Chapter 19 Landscapes of Power: Looking In, Looking Out in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond 287 Oliver Creighton Chapter 20 Castles in the Desert: Living in Libyan Landscapes 299 David Mattingly Chapter 21 Agriculture, Feasting and Social Change in Early Southeast Asia 313 Charles Higham Chapter 22 The Power of Pits: Archaeology, Outreach and Research in Living Landscapes 321 Carenza Lewis Chapter 23 Investigating Large Landscapes: Constraints and Developing Techniques 339 Charles French Part V Afterword 351 Cyprian Broodbank Index 353 vi Contributors Stephen Armstrong Jamie Cameron School of Geography, Archaeology and Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG, UK. Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Email: [email protected] BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. Email: [email protected] Michael G. Campana Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Elizabeth Barrett Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Email: [email protected] Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Letizia Ceccarelli James Barrett McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Luana Cenciaioli Jennifer Bates Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Piazza G. Bruno 10, 06121 Perugia, Italy. University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Email: [email protected] Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Gabriele Cifani Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Facoltà Jeremy Bennett di Lettere e Filosofia, Edificio B, IV piano, via Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK. Columbia 1, 00133 Rome, Italy. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Peter I. Bogucki Sheira Cohen School of Engineering and Applied Science, Prince- Department of Classics and Ancient History, Uni- ton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. versity of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mim A. Bower Gathorne Cranbrook McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Great Glemham House, Saxmundham, IP17 1LP, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, UK. Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected], [email protected] Oliver Creighton Katherine Boyle Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, UK. Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Robin Dennell Cyprian Broodbank Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, EX4 4QE, UK. University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Email: [email protected] Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] vii C. Stephen Downes Chris O. Hunt School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Coleraine Campus, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Londonderry, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK. Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Patricia Duff Liliana Janik McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Lucy Farr Martin Jones McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK. Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sacha Jones Tiomoid Foley McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, School of Geography, Archaeology and University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Carenza Lewis Charles French Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Xinyi Liu Francesca Fulminante The Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0EU, UK. Washington University in St Louis, Email: [email protected] Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA. David D. Gilbertson Email: [email protected] School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sci- ences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plym- Lindsay R. Lloyd-Smith outh, PL4 8AA, UK. Institute for East
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