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Embracing Bell Beaker - Adopting new Ideas and Objects across Europe during the later 3rd Millennium BC (c. 2600-2000 BC) (Paperback)
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Embracing Bell Beaker - Adopting new Ideas and Objects across Europe during the later 3rd Millennium BC (c. 2600-2000 BC) (Paperback)
Series: Scales of Transformation, 2
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This book deals with the question how communities across Europe
during the later 3rd millennium BC adopt and transform the Bell
Beaker phenomenon differently. By looking at these processes of
change from the perspective of settlements and settlement material
culture, an interpretation is given to the development of this
phenomenon that is alternative to the currently prevailing
migration models. Instead, the author uses social theories on the
spread of innovations, the development and functioning of
communication networks and the social technologies involved in the
production of material culture in his arguments. For the first
time, settlements from various regions of Europe are studied at the
same level and compared using modern research methods such as
aoristic frequency distributions, the Bayesian modelling of
radiocarbon dates and network analyses. Temporal and spatial
variability in the regional processes that lead to the adoption
(and rejection!) of Bell Beaker innovations are described in
detail. The regional variability in communication between
settlements, and the exchange of ideas and objects and mobility of
people are combined with sociological network theories on the
spread and adoption of novel ideas. Regional differences in the
production of pottery are reviewed by both quantitative and
qualitative methods. Finally, a Bell Beaker network is described in
which various processes of innovation adoption and subsequent
re-invention, developing communication networks and different forms
of mobility take part.
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