The Hascherkeller rectangular farmstead and its implications for Hallstatt social complexity

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ID3780136
AuthorsThomas Saile (0000-0003-0834-5567, University of Regensburg, corresponding author), Florian Reitmaier (0009-0006-9238-8728, University of Regensburg), Martin Posselt (0000-0003-3304-7449, University of Regensburg), Isabella Denk (University of Applied Sciences Landshut)
Year2025
Volume99
Issue403
Pages170-186
Publication date2025-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2024.195
OpenAlexW4405201042
LanguageEN
References cited11

Enclosed rectangular farmsteads from the Hallstatt period in Central Europe are often cast as the seats of high-status farmers, whose land and social standing could be inherited and consolidated. Excavations at Landshut-Hascherkeller in Bavaria reveal the developmental trajectory of one such site through the stratigraphic disentanglement of its numerous ditches. Here, the authors argue that the coalescence of two rectangular farmsteads into a larger settlement complex at Hascherkeller reflects the union of neighbouring families and the resultant massing of status. The article situates this process in a segmented social system that counterpoints the typified Hallstatt hierarchy, suggesting that two social structures coexisted in the Hallstatt culture

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Beaker · Coalescence (physics) · Economic geography · Ethnology · Excavation · Geography · Hierarchy · Megalith · Period (music) · Political science · Settlement (finance) · Social hierarchy · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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