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Two decades of strontium isotope research on Neolithic European burials – reinforced by high-profile ancient DNA studies – has led to widespread interpretations that these were patrilocal societies, implying significant residential mobility for women. The Not Very Patrilocal European Neolithic questions that narrative from a social anthropological perspective on kinship. It introduces models for inferring residence and descent with isotope and genetic data and provides in-depth descriptions of archaeological kinship analysis. From social anthropological insights to reassessments of data, an alternative perspective on the social dynamics of Neolithic European societies emerges from this new guide for prehistorians working with biological and archaeological materials.

Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ;
Introduction ;
Corporate Kin Groups, Marriage, Residence, and Postmortem Location ;
Neolithic European Kinship: Dental Strontium Isotope Ratios ;
Neolithic European Kinship: aDNA ;
‘Supporting Evidence’ ;
Archaeological Kinship Analysis ;
Neolithic European Kinship: Archaeology ;
The Very Bilocal, Bilateral European Neolithic ;
Glossary ;
References Index

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      Publisher Archaeopress
      Published 30 September 2021
      ISBN-13 9781789699807
      978-1789699807
      ISBN-10 1789699800
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      History Archaeological science, methodology and techniques

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Two decades of strontium isotope research on Neolithic European burials – reinforced by high-profile ancient DNA studies – has led to widespread interpretations that these were patrilocal societies, implying significant residential mobility for women. The Not Very Patrilocal European Neolithic questions that narrative from a social anthropological perspective on kinship. It introduces models for inferring residence and descent with isotope and genetic data and provides in-depth descriptions of archaeological kinship analysis. From social anthropological insights to reassessments of data, an alternative perspective on the social dynamics of Neolithic European societies emerges from this new guide for prehistorians working with biological and archaeological materials.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgments ;
      Introduction ;
      Corporate Kin Groups, Marriage, Residence, and Postmortem Location ;
      Neolithic European Kinship: Dental Strontium Isotope Ratios ;
      Neolithic European Kinship: aDNA ;
      ‘Supporting Evidence’ ;
      Archaeological Kinship Analysis ;
      Neolithic European Kinship: Archaeology ;
      The Very Bilocal, Bilateral European Neolithic ;
      Glossary ;
      References Index

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