Temporal dynamics of Linearbandkeramik houses and settlements, and their implications for detecting the environmental impact of early farming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12265232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Meadows (0000-0002-4346-5591, Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Schleswig, Germany, corresponding author), Nils Müller‐scheeßel (0000-0001-7992-8722, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany), Ivan Cheben (0000-0002-3803-9360, Archaeological Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia), Hilary A Rose (0000-0003-1061-3129, Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Schleswig, Germany), Martin Furholt (0000-0001-9998-6065, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1653-1670 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Holocene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-6836 • E-ISSN: 1477-0911 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959683619857239 |
| OpenAlex | W2953693835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 14 |
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. Intensive prospection by fieldwalking, geophysics and sedimentology, complemented by targeted excavations and archaeobotanical investigations, aims to unravel social and temporal relationships between three adjacent LBK settlements. A total of 23 of the c.300 houses revealed by geophysical prospection have been dated. Bayesian chronological modelling of this dataset, comprising 109 14 C ages from 104 samples, indicates that the three LBK settlements at Vráble coexisted, and that overall the LBK settlement lasted for c. 200–300 years. Our results imply a ‘short’ use-life for individual houses (median c.20–30 y), suggesting that relatively few houses were inhabited simultaneously. Our data suggest that the overall LBK population at Vráble might have increased over the course of occupation, but probably never exceeded 200–300 individuals, based on the number of houses that could have been occupied contemporaneously. We compare the Vráble evidence with Bayesian chronologies for other LBK sites, and discuss the implications of these findings for models of population agglomeration and recognising the environmental impact of early farming communities
Agriculture · Archaeology · Geography · Human settlement · Physical geography · Population · Prospection · Radiocarbon dating · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Stable isotopic insights into crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and land use at the Linearbandkeramik site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby (Slovakia)
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
Structured depositions at Herxheim and elsewhere
Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy)
The Contribution of the Anthropology of Techniques to the Study of the Western Linearbandkeramik
Political Economy in the Archaeology of Emergent Complexity
Barcode seriation and concepts of Gauge Theory. The 14C-Chronology of Starčevo, LBK, and early Vinča
Not going anywhere? Migration as a social practice in the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik
Orientation of Neolithic dwellings in Central and Southeast Europe
Chronological Modelling of the Chalcolithic Settlement Layers at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria
What over 100 drillings tell us
Quantifying Spatial Complexity of Settlement Plans Through Fractal Analysis
IntCal20 Tree Rings
Post-marital residence patterns in LBK
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia
Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction
Adaptation of settlement strategies to environmental conditions in southern Slovakia in the Neolithic and Eneolithic
Estimations of Population Density for Selected Periods Between the Neolithic and AD 1800
Fluvial dynamics of the Žitava River, SW Slovakia, during the last 45 ka BP and their influence on Early Bronze Age human occupation
Early occurrence of temperate oak-dominated forest in the northern part of the Little Hungarian Plain, SW Slovakia
Fish bone chemistry and ultrastructure
Pre-screening techniques for identification of samples suitable for radiocarbon dating of poorly preserved bones
Dealing with Outliers and Offsets in Radiocarbon Dating
Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates
Current Pretreatment Methods for AMS Radiocarbon Dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (Orau)
Between the Vinča and Linearbandkeramik Worlds
Archaeological collagen
Rows with the neighbours
| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 2,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |