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Insights into Social Inequality - A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany (Hardcover)
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Insights into Social Inequality - A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany (Hardcover)
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series, 1
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Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life
capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich
and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore,
inequalities based on bio-anthropological and
non-bio-anthropological causes are almost universal. Accordingly,
inequality was also inherent in past societies and archaeologists
have continually examined and interpreted social inequalities in
sources such as burial grounds. This book continues such analyses
with a new multi-proxy approach. It reveals social inequalities in
selected past burial grounds from Southwestern Germany. The burial
grounds date to the Early Neolithic (Schwetzingen), the Late
Neolithic (Lauda-Königshofen), the Early Bronze Age (Singen), the
Early Iron Age (Magdalenenbergle), and the Early Medieval period
(Horb-Altheim). The challenge was to identify hierarchical and
heterarchical differences and inequalities within the burial
grounds based on a multitude of different proxies. The examination
encompasses variations in the distribution of grave goods, burial
pit sizes, bio-anthropological and isotope data. Furthermore,
spatial analyses of burial grounds and, in particular, on the
distances between the graves play an essential role in this
examination. The results reveal social inequalities among and
within genders and age cohorts that are differently pronounced in
the respective cemeteries. Furthermore, the results of multi-proxy
analyses lead to the interpretation that the sites differ
concerning the respective degrees of inequality and power strategy
modes. In detail, it can be observed that the Early Iron Age and
the Early Bronze Age sites demonstrate a relatively high degree of
inequality as compared to the other sites. More specifically, the
investigation of sites from the Early Iron Age and the Late
Neolithic rather reveal a network-based power strategy, whereas
sites from the Early Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Early
Medieval period tend to show a corporate-based power strategy.
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