Martin Furholt
Biographic Data
| ID | 239476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Furholt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Furholt |
| SIGNATURE | FURHOLT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9998-6065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
We present here the extraordinary find of an Early Neolithic mass deposition of headless human bodies at the LBK settlement site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby. While various scientific analyses are under way, we present the archaeological context of this find and preliminary osteological and taphonomic observations. We discuss these in the light of a patterned and meaningful depositional complexity in Vráble, which embeds into a larger corpus of human …
Beyond heterogeneities. New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin
This volume presents various facets of recent archaeological investigations into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin spanning from the 7th and 2nd millennium BCE. It delves into population dynamics, settlement patterns, and the spread of the Neolithic way of life through methodological approaches such as demographic analysis and environmental modelling. Moreover, the book explores social transformations and the development …
Ditches in focus: Geomagnetic research on a Vučedol site of Szilvás in southeast Transdanubia (Hungary)
This paper presents and discusses the results of geophysical and archaeological prospections at the site of Szilvás in southeast Transdanubia (Baranya County, Hungary). The multiperiodic site was used from the Late Copper Age to the Migration Period, but the vast majority of the pottery sherds relate to the Vučedol pottery style. The find of a possible wheel model highlights the role of technological innovations. We identify a complex enclosure s…
Prehistoric amber item at Žabalj-Nove Zemlje site (Vojvodina, Serbia)
This study focuses on a newly-discovered, perforated pendant from the Žabalj-Nove Zemlje site in Vojvodina, Serbia. The main settlement structure of this multiperiod site is primarily associated with the Late Neolithic Tisza and Vinča cultures (5400-4500/4450 BCE), where two burned houses were excavated from a total of 204 rectangular building anomalies detected archaeomagnetically. A unique, triangular-shaped and perforated pendant appeared on t…
Pits, houses and rondels: New results on the Lengyel habitation in the Žitava Valley, Southwestern Slovakia
As an intensely debated period, the transition from the LBK to post-LBK societies remains in the centre of attention of researchers dealing with the Early Neolithic in Central Europe. The partly drastic change of the settlement systems, regarding both the patterns and organisation, is indeed an interesting subject and raises questions about the social and economic processes and changes that may have accompanied this development. With this contrib…
Ethnicity in European archaeology: Revitalizing a Concept With the Study of Migration
The concept of ethnicity has been largely omitted from recent interpretational models in European prehistoric archaeology. However, eagerness to avoid the problems associated with its past uses has left us with difficulties in talking about important aspects of collective identities in the past. This has become particularly clear as increasing attention has turned to understanding processes of migration and their underlying social dynamics. Here,…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of an archaeothanatological analysis of funerary practices in Linearbandkeramik settlements
Dans l'étude des pratiques funéraires, les objets funéraires sont traditionnellement considérés comme la principale forme de preuve. Cela n'est pas moins vrai pour le Néolithique ancien d'Europe centrale, où la culture matérielle des tombes a dominé les discussions sur tous les aspects de la mort, des inégalités de genre à la parenté, pendant des décennies. Les sépultures non meublées, souvent situées dans des contextes de peuplement et contenant…
Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory
Political practices are fundamental for co-existence in human groups, yet the systematic investigation of such practices within prehistoric societies is still very much pending. Relevant discussions are often limited to cases of obvious asymmetric power relations and the alleged establishment of elites. In order to fill this complex gap in the current discussion we take a systematic approach exploring the nature and organisation of prehistoric po…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of archaeothanatological analysis of Linearbandkeramik funerary practices from settlements
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Affinités biologiques et histoire des peuplements humains: Synergie des données morphométriques et génétiques en Océanie
La reconstruction des histoires de peuplements constitue une part grandissante des recherches bioanthropologiques. Si la discipline de la (paléo)génétique en est aujourd’hui la principale investigatrice, les études morphométriques retraçant l’origine d’individus archéologiques restent toujours utilisées. Différents sets de variations métriques relevés sur la boite crânienne peuvent constituer des indicateurs fiables pour reconstruire les affinité…
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Die nördlichen Badener Keramikstile im Kontext des mitteleuropäischen Spätneolithikums (3650–2900 v. Chr.)
What is behind the term "Baden culture"? Which cultural levels does it touch? How is it to be classified in space and time? It is a concept of supra-regional importance that has significantly shaped Central and South-Eastern European research. This work presents a necessary discussion and redefinition of the common concept, based on a detailed submission of material and reappraisal of archaeological finds from Late Neolithic settlements in the re…
Rethinking Neolithic Societies. New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation: New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of 'archaeological cultures' fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming - as the core of the Neolithic way of life - was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regiona…
Reassessing power in the archaeological discourse. How collective, cooperative and affective perspectives may impact our understanding of social relations and organization in prehistory
This paper critically examines how power is understood and used in archaeological interpretation of prehistoric societies. We argue that studies on power within archaeology have been haltered in their interpretive potential, frequently limited to individualizing coercive power with androcentric connotations. We explore new avenues of power through a retrospective view. Drawing on ideas first conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, while also incorporati…
Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500–2000 BC). In spite of major obstacles to a productive integration of archaeological and anthropological knowledge with ancient DNA data, larger changes in the European gene pool are detected and taken as indications for large-scale migrations during two major periods:…
Forum: Populism, Identity Politics, and the Archaeology of Europe
The kind of liberal and open-minded society on which most academics rely to freely conduct their research is increasingly under threat, even within democratic societies of long standing. The issues related to populist approaches/uses of archaeology are highlighted, in different European countries. The Italian cases debated by A. Vanzetti is analyzed by proposing a general model of (archaeological) communication and discussing some particular situ…
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia
Exploring human possibilities
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Archaeology in the Zitava Valley I: The LBK and Zeliezovce Settlement Site of Vráble
Stable isotopic insights into crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and land use at the Linearbandkeramik site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby (Slovakia)
The plant and animal components of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) subsistence systems were remarkably uniform with cattle, emmer and einkorn wheat providing the primary source of sustenance for Europe’s earliest agricultural communities. This apparent homogeneity in plant and animal use has been implicitly understood to indicate corresponding similarity in the types of husbandry practices employed by LBK farmers across the entire distribution of the LBK…
Archaeology in the Žitava valley I. The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into three contemporary neighbourhoods, one of which is delineated by a complex ditched enclosure system. This enclosure is associated with a large number of human remains, which reveal new patterns of burial and …
What over 100 drillings tell us: A new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging
We investigate the relative fractions of remanent and induced magnetization of the fillings of neolithic long pits in order to develop remanent magnetization as an additional parameter for the archaeological interpretation of magnetic maps. We determine the Koenigsberger ratio – the ratio between induced and remanent magnetization intensities – for key targets by combining magnetic mapping with downhole measurements of susceptibility, numerical m…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vráble, Southwest Slovakia
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to 4950 bc, it constantly grew until around 5050 bc it was inhabited by about 70 contemporaneous longhouses. We found that Vráble consisted of markedly autonomous farmstead units that were held together by village-wide social instit…
Biodeterminism and pseudo-objectivity as obstacles for the emerging field of archaeogenetics
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Massive Migrations? The Impact of Recent aDNA Studies on our View of Third Millennium Europe
New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent theoretical frameworks in archaeology have downplayed as an outdated explanatory notion linked to traditional culture history. While these new genetic data have provided new insights into the population history of prehistoric Europe, they are frequently interpreted and present…
Political Economy in the Archaeology of Emergent Complexity: A Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches
Pottery, cultures, people? The European Baden material re-examined
The Baden culture, like others in central Europe, has long been assumed to be the material indication of a people. In a searing analytical deconstruction, the author shows that ‘Baden’ pottery has no equivalence with other cultural practices, and is itself an amalgam of a number of different pottery fabrics and styles, many of them regionally diverse. Singled out among them is the early Boreláz fine ware which is actively spread in central Europe…
Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500–2000 BC). In spite of major obstacles to a productive integration of archaeological and anthropological knowledge with ancient DNA data, larger changes in the European gene pool are detected and taken as indications for large-scale migrations during two major periods:…
Upending a ‘Totality’: Re-evaluating Corded Ware Variability in Late Neolithic Europe
‘Corded Ware’ in central and eastern Europe is an archaeological phenomenon that has generated multiple ideas and myths about the origins of the Indo-European language, large scale migrations from the eastern Steppes and radical ideological turnovers after 3000 bc . These ideas have been fostered in large part by the over-emphasis placed by successive generations of archaeologists on its extraordinarily large geographical extent and on the seemin…
Reassessing power in the archaeological discourse. How collective, cooperative and affective perspectives may impact our understanding of social relations and organization in prehistory
This paper critically examines how power is understood and used in archaeological interpretation of prehistoric societies. We argue that studies on power within archaeology have been haltered in their interpretive potential, frequently limited to individualizing coercive power with androcentric connotations. We explore new avenues of power through a retrospective view. Drawing on ideas first conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, while also incorporati…
Re-integrating Archaeology: A Contribution to aDNA Studies and the Migration Discourse on the 3rd Millennium BC in Europe
Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in the 3rd millennium bc , outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed populations have re-appeared in archaeological discussions. A more sophisticated model of migration from the steppes was proposed recently by Kristiansen et al . As a reaction to that proposal, this paper aims to contribute to this ongoing debate by refining the latter model…
Translocal Communities – Exploring Mobility and Migration in Sedentary Societies of the European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Mobilität und Migration sind seit einiger Zeit wieder verstärkt in den Mittelpunkt archäologischer Diskussionen gerückt. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Konsequenzen der neuesten molekularbiologischen Forschung für unser Verständnis neolithischer Gesellschaften untersucht. Als Ausgangspunkt dient dabei eine Kritik des Konzepts der Geschlossenheit und Kohärenz, die im modernen Denken verhaftet ist und unsere Vorstellungen von sozialen Einheiten besti…
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia
Temporal dynamics of Linearbandkeramik houses and settlements, and their implications for detecting the environmental impact of early farming
Long-held ideas concerning early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) settlements in central Europe have been thoroughly challenged in recent years, for example, regarding their internal organisation or the use-life of individual houses. These topics have now also been addressed with the help of large radiocarbon ( 14 C) datasets. In the light of this discussion, we present findings of our ongoing research at Vráble in south-western Slovakia. Intens…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology: The Case of the Late Neolithic Bosnian Site Okolište c. 5200–4600 bce
De-contaminating the aDNA – archaeology dialogue on mobility and migration: Discussing the culture-historical legacy
While the newly available ancient DNA data have shaken a lot of archaeological debates, they have, despite their enormous potential, not yet had any meaningful impact on the way we view prehistory. Instead of using this new data-source to explore new questions, or at least to re-assess the old ones, aDNA results have been tacked onto some of the most outdated narratives in European prehistory, stemming from the early twentieth century. The simpli…
Forum: Populism, Identity Politics, and the Archaeology of Europe
The kind of liberal and open-minded society on which most academics rely to freely conduct their research is increasingly under threat, even within democratic societies of long standing. The issues related to populist approaches/uses of archaeology are highlighted, in different European countries. The Italian cases debated by A. Vanzetti is analyzed by proposing a general model of (archaeological) communication and discussing some particular situ…
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vráble, Southwest Slovakia
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to 4950 bc, it constantly grew until around 5050 bc it was inhabited by about 70 contemporaneous longhouses. We found that Vráble consisted of markedly autonomous farmstead units that were held together by village-wide social instit…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen unterschiedlicher Siedlungskomponenten, von Tells, Flachsiedlungen und Kreisgrabenanlagen gekennzeichnet sind. In diesem Beitrag ist die Entwicklung einer solchen Mehrkomponenten-Siedlung – Borđoš in der serbischen Vojvodina – rekonstrui…
Biodeterminism and pseudo-objectivity as obstacles for the emerging field of archaeogenetics
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Proto-Urban Establishments in Inner Asia: Surveys of an Iron Age Walled Site in Eastern Mongolia
Walled sites attributed to the Xiongnu steppe empire (2nd century b.c.–1st century a.d.) constitute the earliest investments in explicitly non-mortuary built environments among pastoralists of the Mongolian Steppe. These permanent constructions are important precedents to the medieval towns of subsequent steppe empires, yet very little of the complete layouts and surrounding remains of the large enclosures are understood. Our investigations of th…
Ritual and economic activity during the Neolithic in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany: An approach to combine archaeological and palynological evidence
Monuments and economies: What drove their variability in the middle-Holocene Neolithic
In the regions of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, within the Neolithic ( c. 4100–1700 BCE), two episodes of intensified monumental burial construction are known: Funnel Beaker megaliths mainly from c. 3400–3100 BCE and Single Grave burial mounds from c. 2800–2500 BCE. So far, it remains unclear whether these boom phases of monumental construction were linked with phases of economic expansion, to phases of economic changes or to periods…
Rethinking Neolithic Societies. New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation: New Perspectives on Social Relations, Political Organization and Cohabitation
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of 'archaeological cultures' fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming - as the core of the Neolithic way of life - was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regiona…
What over 100 drillings tell us: A new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging
We investigate the relative fractions of remanent and induced magnetization of the fillings of neolithic long pits in order to develop remanent magnetization as an additional parameter for the archaeological interpretation of magnetic maps. We determine the Koenigsberger ratio – the ratio between induced and remanent magnetization intensities – for key targets by combining magnetic mapping with downhole measurements of susceptibility, numerical m…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of an archaeothanatological analysis of funerary practices in Linearbandkeramik settlements
Dans l'étude des pratiques funéraires, les objets funéraires sont traditionnellement considérés comme la principale forme de preuve. Cela n'est pas moins vrai pour le Néolithique ancien d'Europe centrale, où la culture matérielle des tombes a dominé les discussions sur tous les aspects de la mort, des inégalités de genre à la parenté, pendant des décennies. Les sépultures non meublées, souvent situées dans des contextes de peuplement et contenant…
Exploring human possibilities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Settlement layout and social organisation in the earliest European Neolithic
Pottery, cultures, people? The European Baden material re-examined
The Baden culture, like others in central Europe, has long been assumed to be the material indication of a people. In a searing analytical deconstruction, the author shows that ‘Baden’ pottery has no equivalence with other cultural practices, and is itself an amalgam of a number of different pottery fabrics and styles, many of them regionally diverse. Singled out among them is the early Boreláz fine ware which is actively spread in central Europe…
Cultural and Environmental Landscape Transformation during the Neolithic in Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia
Ritual and economic activity during the Neolithic in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany: An approach to combine archaeological and palynological evidence
Upending a ‘Totality’: Re-evaluating Corded Ware Variability in Late Neolithic Europe
‘Corded Ware’ in central and eastern Europe is an archaeological phenomenon that has generated multiple ideas and myths about the origins of the Indo-European language, large scale migrations from the eastern Steppes and radical ideological turnovers after 3000 bc . These ideas have been fostered in large part by the over-emphasis placed by successive generations of archaeologists on its extraordinarily large geographical extent and on the seemin…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology: The Case of the Late Neolithic Bosnian Site Okolište c. 5200–4600 bce
Settlement layout and social organisation in the earliest European Neolithic
Balkan Dialogues: Negotiating Identity Between Prehistory and the Present
P-ed-XRF-geochemical signatures of a 7300 year old Linear Band Pottery house ditch fill at Vráble-Ve'lké Lehemby, Slovakia - House inhabitation and post-depositional processes
Massive Migrations? The Impact of Recent aDNA Studies on our View of Third Millennium Europe
New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent theoretical frameworks in archaeology have downplayed as an outdated explanatory notion linked to traditional culture history. While these new genetic data have provided new insights into the population history of prehistoric Europe, they are frequently interpreted and present…
Translocal Communities – Exploring Mobility and Migration in Sedentary Societies of the European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Mobilität und Migration sind seit einiger Zeit wieder verstärkt in den Mittelpunkt archäologischer Diskussionen gerückt. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Konsequenzen der neuesten molekularbiologischen Forschung für unser Verständnis neolithischer Gesellschaften untersucht. Als Ausgangspunkt dient dabei eine Kritik des Konzepts der Geschlossenheit und Kohärenz, die im modernen Denken verhaftet ist und unsere Vorstellungen von sozialen Einheiten besti…
De-contaminating the aDNA – archaeology dialogue on mobility and migration: Discussing the culture-historical legacy
While the newly available ancient DNA data have shaken a lot of archaeological debates, they have, despite their enormous potential, not yet had any meaningful impact on the way we view prehistory. Instead of using this new data-source to explore new questions, or at least to re-assess the old ones, aDNA results have been tacked onto some of the most outdated narratives in European prehistory, stemming from the early twentieth century. The simpli…
Monuments and economies: What drove their variability in the middle-Holocene Neolithic
In the regions of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, within the Neolithic ( c. 4100–1700 BCE), two episodes of intensified monumental burial construction are known: Funnel Beaker megaliths mainly from c. 3400–3100 BCE and Single Grave burial mounds from c. 2800–2500 BCE. So far, it remains unclear whether these boom phases of monumental construction were linked with phases of economic expansion, to phases of economic changes or to periods…
Temporal dynamics of Linearbandkeramik houses and settlements, and their implications for detecting the environmental impact of early farming
Long-held ideas concerning early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) settlements in central Europe have been thoroughly challenged in recent years, for example, regarding their internal organisation or the use-life of individual houses. These topics have now also been addressed with the help of large radiocarbon ( 14 C) datasets. In the light of this discussion, we present findings of our ongoing research at Vráble in south-western Slovakia. Intens…
Proto-Urban Establishments in Inner Asia: Surveys of an Iron Age Walled Site in Eastern Mongolia
Walled sites attributed to the Xiongnu steppe empire (2nd century b.c.–1st century a.d.) constitute the earliest investments in explicitly non-mortuary built environments among pastoralists of the Mongolian Steppe. These permanent constructions are important precedents to the medieval towns of subsequent steppe empires, yet very little of the complete layouts and surrounding remains of the large enclosures are understood. Our investigations of th…
Re-integrating Archaeology: A Contribution to aDNA Studies and the Migration Discourse on the 3rd Millennium BC in Europe
Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in the 3rd millennium bc , outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed populations have re-appeared in archaeological discussions. A more sophisticated model of migration from the steppes was proposed recently by Kristiansen et al . As a reaction to that proposal, this paper aims to contribute to this ongoing debate by refining the latter model…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen unterschiedlicher Siedlungskomponenten, von Tells, Flachsiedlungen und Kreisgrabenanlagen gekennzeichnet sind. In diesem Beitrag ist die Entwicklung einer solchen Mehrkomponenten-Siedlung – Borđoš in der serbischen Vojvodina – rekonstrui…
Political Economy in the Archaeology of Emergent Complexity: A Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches
Archaeology in the Zitava Valley I: The LBK and Zeliezovce Settlement Site of Vráble
Stable isotopic insights into crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and land use at the Linearbandkeramik site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby (Slovakia)
The plant and animal components of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) subsistence systems were remarkably uniform with cattle, emmer and einkorn wheat providing the primary source of sustenance for Europe’s earliest agricultural communities. This apparent homogeneity in plant and animal use has been implicitly understood to indicate corresponding similarity in the types of husbandry practices employed by LBK farmers across the entire distribution of the LBK…
Archaeology in the Žitava valley I. The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into three contemporary neighbourhoods, one of which is delineated by a complex ditched enclosure system. This enclosure is associated with a large number of human remains, which reveal new patterns of burial and …
What over 100 drillings tell us: A new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging
We investigate the relative fractions of remanent and induced magnetization of the fillings of neolithic long pits in order to develop remanent magnetization as an additional parameter for the archaeological interpretation of magnetic maps. We determine the Koenigsberger ratio – the ratio between induced and remanent magnetization intensities – for key targets by combining magnetic mapping with downhole measurements of susceptibility, numerical m…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vráble, Southwest Slovakia
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to 4950 bc, it constantly grew until around 5050 bc it was inhabited by about 70 contemporaneous longhouses. We found that Vráble consisted of markedly autonomous farmstead units that were held together by village-wide social instit…
Biodeterminism and pseudo-objectivity as obstacles for the emerging field of archaeogenetics
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500–2000 BC). In spite of major obstacles to a productive integration of archaeological and anthropological knowledge with ancient DNA data, larger changes in the European gene pool are detected and taken as indications for large-scale migrations during two major periods:…
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