The Neolithic Enclosures in Transition. Tradition and Change in the Cosmology of Early Farmers in Central Europe

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Neolithic Enclosures in Transition. Tradition and Change in the Cosmology of Early Farmers in Central Europe
Original language description
In this chapter we are going to discuss the phenomenon of Neolithic enclosures as symbols of shared identity and their replacement by natural shrines and perhaps by new ideology and cult. The tradition of collective values gradually faded from the mid Fifth Millennium BC However, this dramatic change started at the beginning of the Third Millennium BC. The changes that I am going to discuss in this paper were not induced by any change in subsistence strategy or climatic influences. The Third Millenniumchanges comprise the development of social relations and transition of cosmology amongst the European Copper Age farming communities. What kind of changes were they? Mainly it was a sudden discontinuity in the long tradition of the construction of ditched and hill top enclosures that dominated the Neolithic Period in central Europe. This phenomenon has its pedigree in the early Neolithic round ditched shrines, so called roundels. Such monuments are traditionally interpreted as features o
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Enclosing the Neolithic : recent studies in Britain and Europe
ISBN
978-1-4073-1039-8
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
185-201
Number of pages of the book
206
Publisher name
Archaeopress
Place of publication
Oxford
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