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Contacts, Boundaries and Innovation in the Fifth Millennium - Exploring Developed Neolithic Societies in Central Europe and Beyond (Paperback)
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Contacts, Boundaries and Innovation in the Fifth Millennium - Exploring Developed Neolithic Societies in Central Europe and Beyond (Paperback)
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The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a
veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still
strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at
its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism,
representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement
system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these
inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of
increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them
defined through pottery only. This tension between large-scale
interaction and more local developments remains ill understood,
largely because inter-regional comparisons are lacking.
Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date regional overviews
of the main developments in the fifth millennium and discuss,
amongst others, in how far ceramically-defined 'cultures' can be
seen as spatially coherent social groups with their own way of life
and worldview, and how processes of innovation can be understood.
Case studies range from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands,
hunter-gatherer - farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to the
Italian Neolithic. Amongst others, they cover the circulation of
stone disc-rings in western Europe, the formation of post-LBK
societies in central Europe and the reliability of pottery as an
indicator for social transformations.
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