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Funerary Practices as a Testimony of Ideology in Western Linearbandkeramik Culture [PDF]
Open Archaeology, 2021 The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) is behind the spread of the Neolithic way of life in a large part of Western Europe. This period is often regarded as the beginning of social inequalities whose ideological frameworks deserve to be highlighted.
Augereau Anne
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The Evolution of Dual Meat and Milk Cattle Husbandry in Linearbandkeramik Societies [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 International audienceCattle dominate archaeozoological assemblages from the north-central Europe between the sixth and fifth millennium BC and are frequently considered as exclusively used for their meat.
Rosalind E Gillis +2 more
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2023 Underground storage organs are poorly preserved in the archaeological record, and as a result their contribution to the diet of ancient societies is poorly understood.
Clarissa Cagnato +3 more
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Evol AnthropolABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
d'Errico F, Rigaud S.
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Fixed and Fluid: The Two Faces of Gender Roles-A Combined Study of Activity Patterns and Burial Practices in the European Neolithic. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates gender roles in the European Neolithic by analyzing activity‐related skeletal changes (ARSCs) and burial practices at two Polgár microregion sites in Hungary: Polgár‐Ferenci‐hát (5300–5070 cal. bce) and Polgár‐Csőszhalom (4800–4650 cal. bce). Materials and Methods A total of 125 well‐preserved adult skeletons
Villotte S +3 more
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Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Prehistoric warfare and massacres of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities are evidenced by mass graves from the Early Neolithic of Central Europe. Here, Meyer et al.
Christian Meyer +7 more
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The Mechanisms of Neolithisation of Western Europe: Beyond a South/North Approach
Open Archaeology, 2021 Up until now, the neolithisation of Western Europe during the sixth millennium BCE has mainly been approached through the characterisation of its diffusion vectors (cultural vs demic diffusion) and the emergence of technoeconomic innovations (rhythms ...
Hamon Caroline, Manen Claire
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Social Rules and Household Interactions Within the LBK: Long-Standing Debates, New Perspectives
Open Archaeology, 2021 Within Linearbandkeramik (LBK) studies, several models of social structure and organisation have been debated since the 1960s, influenced by several major anthropological theories that even today guide the debates.
Hamon Caroline, Gomart Louise
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Domesticated Water: Four Early Neolithic Wells in Moravia (CZ)
Open Archaeology, 2021 Water wells are the most unique finds from the Early Neolithic period in Central Europe. These features provide unusual insight into societies and their settlements, as well as into the water management process.
Vostrovská Ivana +5 more
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The significance of Early Neolithic settlement burials: a case study from Central Germany
Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Early Neolithic Settlement burials in Central Europe have long been treated as an irregularity and thus sparked discussions about perceptions of social deviancy. In recent years, the highly increased number of documented settlement burials suggests that
Reinhard Stolle
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