Landscapes, Histories And Societies In The Northern European Neolithic. Frühe Monumentalität Und Soziale Differenzierung Band 4 (original) (raw)
"Landscape, Histories and Societies in the Northern European Neolithic" presents papers from two sessions of the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists held in 2011 in Olso. The papers of this volume describe new research on the relationships between landscape, history and society in the northern European Neolithic. They focus on the Funnel Beaker complex and related Neolithic contexts, with case studies extending from Poland and the Czech Republic to Norway and Scotland. Several case studies examine the significance of enclosures – from early causewayed enclosures in the north associated with the very beginnings of the Neolithic to the significance of palisade enclosures constructed towards the end of the Neolithic in Scotland and Sweden. The volume also includes new studies on the origin, significance and interpretation of Neolithic burial and megalithic architecture found in a range of landscapes across northern Europe. Importantly, the volume also outlines the significance of other kinds of places that were not monumentalised in the same way, such as fens, the seashore and the wider environment, in the construction of Neolithic worldview. Finally, it concludes with a series of articles that consider the significance of particular forms of material culture – axes, grinding stones, pottery and food – in social reproduction in the Neolithic of northern Europe. Overall, the volume presents an important body of new data and international perspectives concerning Neolithic societies, histories and landscapes in northern Europe.
Neolithic Seminar at the University of Bern
Network in Eastern European Neolithic and Wetland Archaeology. Scientific Cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland. Working Papers on Prehistoric Archaeology. , 2020
The general aims of the IP were to build up a scientific network in Neolithic and wetland archaeology and the transfer of knowledge from Switzerland, as one of the worldwide leading countries in this field, to the participating Eastern European (EE) countries. Further aims were to concentrate on an improvement of archaeological field techniques (mainly underwater archaeology/ documentation under water/diving security) and dating methods. The combined application of locally developed dendrochronological calendars and radiocarbon dating is most promising. All EE-sites have the potential to give new insights on the process of the Neolithisation of Europe. In order to achieve these goals, joint activities, such as workshops, seminars, public lectures, field trips, diving courses and study weeks, were organised in the individual countries within framework of the NEENAWA project.
The Neolithic roundel and its social context on the furthest reaches of the Danubian World
2020
e Neolithic was distinguished by an emergence of monumentality. Nonetheless, the speci c character of Neolithic monumentality is a question that continues to exercise prehistorians. e purpose of this volume is to collate and discuss the most recent theories of why monumental architecture became such an important part of life in early agrarian societies in Europe and southwest Asia. e construction of monuments required technical skills as well as an immense degree of planning and labour e ort. What was the motivation among early farmers and herders to invest heavily in building structures on a monumental scale What concepts of monumentality did these societies actually have Monument building is o en seen in the context of the emergence of ranked and strati ed societies. What place may monuments have had in the social organisation of the groups that made and used them e origin of monumentalism is discussed in a section about Göbekli Tepe, the famous site in southeastern Turkey with the earliest known monumental structures. e latest analyses of the site are presented in conjunction with contributions from Ian Hodder and Christain Jeunesse. Another section explores the relationship between monument construction and social dynamics among early farmers as well as more mature Neolithic societies in northern Europe and modern megalith building communities in Asia. Funerary monuments from long barrows to various stone tombs, their development and role of society is explored in areas ranging from Portugal in the south to Scotland in the north and from Poland in the east to the Netherlands in the west. In a third section the practice of monumentalizing the landscape by erecting Maltese temples, Polish roundels, enclosures from Portugal and a range of Swedish monuments is investigated in relation to social and economic changes in society. In the concluding chapter Julian omas studies the many themes that are embodied in the concept of monument including massiveness and scale, memorability and remembrance, permanence and durability, labour and construction, experience and embodiment, performance and spectacle, spatial order, meaning and message, competition and solidarity. Finally, the debate on Neolithic monuments in this volume raises questions of how our understanding of monumentality compares with perceptions in the past and what the role of monumentality is in our own society. Anne Birgitte Gebauer is a researcher at e National Museum of Denmark with magister degree from the University of Aarhus in 1981. Her research is focused on the introduction of agriculture, copper metallurgy, megalithic tombs, funerary rites, ceramic analysis and Funnel Beaker culture.
Schier 2014 Oxford Handbook of the Neolithic - Central and Eastern Europe
The essay describes major movements of people and ideas in central and eastern Europe during the sixth to third millennium BC. For the sixth millennium, Neolithization itself is the main issue, the debate about which reflects changing attitudes in central European archaeology over the past two decades. The spread of a solarcosmological ideology is suggested at the beginning of the fifth millennium, manifested in circular enclosures with astronomical orientations. In the late fifth and early fourth millennium the Neolithic economy and areas of habitation are considerably enlarged in central Europe, suggesting new agricultural techniques. The later fourth and early third millennium was a time of far-reaching innovation with the development of wheeled transport; in contrast to earlier opinions an origin in the Pontic steppe zone seems highly probable. The latest large-scale movement of ideas and/or people considered here is the diffusion of the Corded Ware culture, and with it, a new gender-specific ideology, reflected in its rigid burial customs.
Neolithic and Bronze Age Studies in Europe From material culture to territories edited by
UISPP PROCEEDINGS SERIES VOL. 13, UISPP XVIII° world congress 2018, 2021
Neolithic and Bronze Age Studies in Europe: from material culture to territories presents eight papers from the 2018 UISPP Congress. Topics include the neolithisation process in the Iberian Peninsula; faunal exploitation in early Neolithic Italy; the economic and symbolic role of animals in eastern Germany; Copper Age human remains in central Italy; animal figurines; spatula-idols; territories and schematic art in the Iberian Neolithic; and finally Bronze age hoards at a European scale. The diversity of the papers reflects contemporary approaches and questions in those periods.