Andrew Sherratt
British archaeologist best known for proposing the 'Secondary Products Revolution' to explain early exploitation of domesticated animals for milk, wool, and traction; influential in Old World prehistory and world-systems approaches, with long service at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
Books
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1. Economy And Society In Prehistoric Europe
Changing Perspectives
A synthesis of influential essays that reinterprets Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe through the lens of economic and social change. It highlights the “secondary products revolution” — the intensified use of milk, wool, and animal traction — and shows how innovations in agriculture, pastoralism, and long-distance exchange reshaped mobility, ritual landscapes, and social hierarchies. Drawing on comparative and world-systems perspectives, it connects environmental factors, settlement patterns, and material culture to the emergence of more complex regional economies across prehistoric Europe.