Five rivers, five stories: Regional diversity and peripheries in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081758:_____/23:00577907

Result on the web

<a href="https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/ketn/Archeologia/CE-TAG-2023-Bratislava_Abstracts_Book-final-1.pdf" target="_blank" >https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/ketn/Archeologia/CE-TAG-2023-Bratislava_Abstracts_Book-final-1.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Five rivers, five stories: Regional diversity and peripheries in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Original language description

Archaeological culture as a monothetic entity representing a homogeneous group of people has been deeply rooted in archaeologists' minds. However, it has been challenged by those who argue for a high degree of socio-cultural diversity in prehistory. Our paper introduces radiocarbon dating into the debate. Employing formal modelling on an extensive dataset, we track the distinct socio-cultural phenomena that define of archaeological cultures of the Early Neolithic, Late Neolithic, and Early Bronze Age Central Europe. We then compare their absolute chronology across the five regions situated along the Danube, Elbe, Vltava, Morava, and Berounka rivers. The results reveal long-term resilience patterns in two upland regions of the Upper Vltava and Upper Berounka rivers. Their development significantly deviated from conventional schemes as the distinctive socio-cultural phenomena, which were shaping the surrounding lowlands, had delayed or minimal impact in these particular areas. Despite that, the archaeological record shows that these regions were not fully isolated from interregional distribution networks. Based on that, the concept of the inner periphery and polythetic model of archaeological culture is advocated as an explanatory framework for understanding diversity within past societies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-16614S" target="_blank" >GA21-16614S: At the fringe of the neolithization: strategies of the first farmers of South Bohemia</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů