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Animal traction and household economies in Neolithic Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Bogucki
Peter Bogucki*
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Forbes College, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544-4000, USA
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Abstract

Most archaeological interest in the story of European social evolution has looked to the grand picture, as the bands combine and climb at last to achieve states and empires. What about the structure of European Neolithic as it was experienced at home, when the OX, the pig, the sheep and the goat came to live in the domestic unit of the single household?

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 492 - 503
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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