Uncomformist archaeology : papers in honour of Paolo Biagi / edited by Elisabetta Starnini.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Italy : 1. Rapid rivers, slow forests : early Neolithic charcoal from northern Italy / Renato Nisbet -- Europe : 2. Mesolithic obsidian networks in the Aegean / Małgorzata Kaczanowska, Janusz K. Kozłowski -- 3. Climate changes and social responses in the early prehistory of Greece : a complex and dynamic interaction / Nikos Efstratiou -- 4. The 1965-1968 excavations at Schela Cladovei (Romania) revisited / Adina Boroneanț, Clive Bonsall -- 5. The Neolithic transition in Europe : some comments on gaps, contacts, arrhythmic model, genetics / Jean Guilaine -- 6. Remains of a special ʹpersonalityʹ from the Copper Age of the eastern Carpathian Basin / Pál Raczky -- 7. Pass the skeleton key.. .Animals in an Early Copper Age inhumation burial from Pusztataskony-Ledence I, Hungary / László Bartosiewicz, Zsófia Eszter Kovács, Balázs Farkas -- 8. Small but special : the island of Palagruz̆a in the 3rd millennium BC Adriatic / Stas̆o Forenbaher -- 9. The birth of the Hero : the emergence of a social type in the 4th millennium BC / Svend Hansen -- 10. The Sibylline book of European ethnoarchaeology / John Nandriș -- Asia : 11. Three end-scrapers from Mohenjo-Daro (Pakistan) / Massimo Vidale, Anna Siviero, Giancarlo Sidoti, Giuseppe Guida, Gianfranco Priori -- 12. Multiple Technological Choices for the Ceramic Bangles of the Early and Mature Indus Civilization (Pakistan) / Michela Spataro.

This honorary volume offered to Paolo Biagi for his 65th birthday brings together papers by his friends, former students and colleagues, who have shared with him research experiences on different geographical regions and topics. Paolo Biagi, one of the outstanding Italian prehistorians, was elected in 2009 as Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in recognition of his original work in the field, studying the environmental contexts and lithic technologies of a wide range of human cultures, from Europe to the Indian sub-continent. The twelve papers in this volume cover the fields of Paolo Biagi’s scientific activity, extending from the prehistory from northern Italy, the Adriatic and the Aegean, to the Indus Valley. The topics covered include the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the Neolithization of the Mediterranean Basin, and archaeometric approaches to prehistoric archaeology. Other contributions are look at matters philosophical and theoretical, and offer an original view of the human past.