Cultural resilience of prehistoric peripheries: A case study of South Bohemia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Cultural resilience of prehistoric peripheries: A case study of South Bohemia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The region of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) represents a specific area of prehistoric occupation. Generally higher altitudes, less fertile soils and local wetlands set certain limits for agricultural communities in comparison to those inhabiting the neighbouring loess lowlands spreading across drainage basins of the upper Elbe, Morava, and Danube. In our case study we track the cultural development of South Bohemia in a long-term perspective from late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to complex society of the Bronze Age. Comparing a comprehensive dataset of radiocarbon dates, we have identified several periods of differences in cultural development of South Bohemia and neighbouring lowland regions. Despite new cultural systems with distinctive materiality and cultural manifestation emerged in lowlands, they reached South Bohemia with considerable delay, or they are even completely absent in local archaeological record. We argue that this trajectory was governed by the cultural conservatism strengthening a distinctive identity of South Bohemian communities rather than their physical isolation since the inter-regional distribution networks remained uninterrupted. The paper demonstrates that there can be more variable reality beneath blocks of archaeological cultures and their generalised spatio-temporal development. Even for temperate landscapes lacking extreme gradients of high mountains or arid areas it should be considered patchier image where progressive core regions interweaved by inner peripheries with different development.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Cultural resilience of prehistoric peripheries: A case study of South Bohemia

Popis výsledku anglicky

The region of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) represents a specific area of prehistoric occupation. Generally higher altitudes, less fertile soils and local wetlands set certain limits for agricultural communities in comparison to those inhabiting the neighbouring loess lowlands spreading across drainage basins of the upper Elbe, Morava, and Danube. In our case study we track the cultural development of South Bohemia in a long-term perspective from late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to complex society of the Bronze Age. Comparing a comprehensive dataset of radiocarbon dates, we have identified several periods of differences in cultural development of South Bohemia and neighbouring lowland regions. Despite new cultural systems with distinctive materiality and cultural manifestation emerged in lowlands, they reached South Bohemia with considerable delay, or they are even completely absent in local archaeological record. We argue that this trajectory was governed by the cultural conservatism strengthening a distinctive identity of South Bohemian communities rather than their physical isolation since the inter-regional distribution networks remained uninterrupted. The paper demonstrates that there can be more variable reality beneath blocks of archaeological cultures and their generalised spatio-temporal development. Even for temperate landscapes lacking extreme gradients of high mountains or arid areas it should be considered patchier image where progressive core regions interweaved by inner peripheries with different development.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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