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The First Farmers of Central Europe
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for instance, the expansion and increasing density of settlement, progressive regionalisation in pottery decoration, and at the end some signs of stress or even localised crisis. Although showing many features in common across its very broad distribution, however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere the same, and there is...
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
The Neolithic - a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe - has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe and the way research traditions in different countries (and languages) have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic - from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta - offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and curre...
The Power of the Line
Extensive research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and cognitive science clearly suggests that the development of a material culture in prehistory was a serious contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. An underestimated interface in this process, as cognitive and philosophical studies suggest, was the capability to perceive the external world in a metaphorical way. This book uses several examples to tell this story. It does not claim the right to present a universal story, applicable for the whole human species, although it also questions that universality. The cornerstone of the story is structured by the relationship between body, language, and material culture. T...
Cattle and People
This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview
Creating Communities
The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which unite LBK studies in their different regional research contexts and paves the way for further debate on the subject.
Mirrors Are Deceptive
Agnosticism is an ideology that every human being have encountered at least once in their lifetime. Despite being a worshiper or a non- believer. The thirst of knowing the truth or an understanding of our existence from past to future. Seeking reality and accepting the truth is a trait of humanity. Despite many factors that sets humans apart, Agnosticism breaks all the anomalies of cultural and religious restraints and make humanity live in a unified world without any differences. Deep down in our heart we all perceive a slight thought of global unification. This book gives the glimpse of unified humanity in the past, differences in the present and the trajectory of the prosperous humanity that can be achieved in the future, when we are all united as one.
Something Out of the Ordinary? Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond
More than 7000 years ago, groups of early farmers (the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK) spread over vast areas of Europe. Their cultural characteristics comprised common choices and styles of execution, with a central meaning and functionality attached to ‘doing things a certain way’, over an enormous geographical area. However, recent evidence suggests that the reality was much more varied and diverse. The central question of this book is the extent to which notions of ‘uniformity’ and ‘diversity’ have caused a wider shift in archaeological perspective. Using the LBK case study as a starting point, the volume brings together contributions by international specialists tackling the noti...
Relational Archaeologies
Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as consciousness, reason and intentionality. So deeply-seated is this metaphysical belief, along with the related distinctions we draw between subject/object, mind/body and nature/culture that many of us tacitly assume past groups approached and apprehended the world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologies questions how such a view of human beings, ‘other-than-human’ creatures and things aff...
Menschwerdung
Heft 1/2020 ist einem sensationellen neuen Fund im Ostallgäu gewidmet: Danuvius guggenmosi lautet der wissenschaftliche Name einer Menschenaffen-Art, die vor 11,62 Millionen Jahren in Bayern lebte. Die Besonderheit: Dieser Hominide konnte bereits aufrecht gehen, weit früher als die bislang bekannten Arten. Bayern rückt mit diesem Fund ins Rampenlicht der Evolutionsforschung. Geschah die Menschwerdung nicht (nur) in Afrika, sondern (auch) in Mitteleuropa? In Heft 2/2020 betrachten wir die Trinksitten und Drogen in der Vor- und Frühgeschichte – von der Erfindung des Bieres, dem ersten Wein, seltsamen keltischen Mischgetränken bis zum Gebrauch hallu-zinogener Rauschmittel in vorzeitlichen Ritualen. Die weiteren Themen 2020: Leben im Meteoriten-krater – das Nördlinger Ries (Heft 3), Wege des Kupfers – Alpenpässe in der Bronzezeit (Heft 4).
Archäozoologie
Archäozoologen bringen Tierknochen zum Sprechen. Mit traditionellen Methoden wie der vergleichenden Osteologie – also Knochenkunde – oder mit modernen Labor- methoden wie DNA- und Isotopenanalysen sind sie verschiedenen Tierarten und ihrem Lebensumfeld auf der Spur. Im Fokus: die Mensch-Tier-Beziehung. Welche Tiere haben die Wildbeuter der Altsteinzeit gejagt? Warum sind die Rentiere in Bayern ausgestorben? Welches waren die Nutztiere der ersten Bauern und woher stammten sie? Und welche Rolle spielen Tiere in vorgeschichtlichen Ritualen und Opferpraktiken? Seit mehr als 150 Jahren tragen archäozoologische Untersuchungen zur Kenntnis der kulturgeschichtlichen Entwicklung des Menschen in allen Perioden der bayerischen Vor- und Frühgeschichte bei.
