Beyond heterogeneities

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6427-111-9
Verlag: Sidestone Press Academics

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1382 g

Reihe: Scales of Transformation

This volume presents various facets of recent archaeological investigations into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies in the Carpathian Basin spanning from the 7th and 2nd millennium BCE. It delves into population dynamics, settlement patterns, and the spread of the Neolithic way of life through methodological approaches such as demographic analysis and environmental modelling.

Moreover, the book explores social transformations and the development of inequalities, emphasizing the role of cultural complexes and technological advancements in shaping prehistoric societies. Interdisciplinary studies encompassing the spatial scales from the archaeological site up to the supra-regional level shed new light on domestic practices, subsistence strategies, and integration into regional socio-economic networks. Several contributions deal with enclosures and communal areas, which are reinterpreted to unveil their ritual significance and community dynamics. This is particularly evident in those cases that include burials. Ritual practices surrounding burial sites are seen as responses to social crises and complex situations, reflecting the negotiation of individuality and community identity.

Overall, the book underscores the multifaceted nature of Neolithic and Bronze Age societies, showcasing their adaptability, social complexity, and elaborate interactions with the environment and neighbouring communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furholt, Kata

Depaermentier, Margaux L. C.

Kempf, Michael

Furholt, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface of the Series Editors
Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller

Introduction
Kata Furholt, Margaux L. C. Depaermentier, Michael Kempf, Martin Furholt

PART 1. POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT DYNAMICS

Starcevo-Körös-Cris regional and macro-regional palaeo-demography
Tamara Blagojevic, Marko Porcic, Sofija Stefanovic

Exploring Neolithic site preferences in the river Tisza floodplain using point pattern analysis and multicomponent environmental models
Michael Kempf, Gerrit Günther, Margaux L. C. Depaermentier

The possible effect of plant cover on wind comfort in the Late Neolithic: a case study using environmental reconstruction for the site of Makaranda (northern Serbia)
Aleksandar Medovic, Robert Hofmann, Martin Furholt, Tijana Stankovic Pešterac, Ildiko Medovic, Stefan Dreibrodt, Liudmyla Shatilo, Kata Furholt, Fynn Wilkes, Darko Radmanovic, Nikola Mrkšic

Neolithic settlement structures on the lower reaches of the Tisza River, Vojvodina, Serbia: the results of archaeo-magnetic prospection
Robert Hofmann, Kata Furholt, Aleksandar Medovic, Martin Furholt, Fynn Wilkes, Ildiko Medovic, Tijana Stankovic Pešterac, Till Kühl, Sebastian Schultrich, Raško Ramadanski, Lenkskaya Martinova

Szegvár-Tuzköves (Tisza region, Hungary): teaching an old site new tricks
Pál Raczky, András Füzesi, Gábor Mesterházy, Kata Furholt, Eszter Bánffy, Knut Rassmann, Máté Stibrányi, Gábor Serlegi

PART 2. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND INEQUALITIES

Social transformations of liminal areas in the Late Neolithic: a multidisciplinary approach to the site of Gradište (Serbia)
Miroslav Maric, Silvia Amicone, Jelena Bulatovic, Nemanja Markovic, Neda Mirkovic Maric

Circuits of reproduction: The opportunities and power to change
Tamás Polányi

Applying the Inequality Possibility Frontier and the Inequality Extraction Ratio to archaeological data: studying inequality in the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Jelšovce (Slovakia)
Fynn Wilkes, Henry Skorna

PART 3. ENCLOSURE AND COMMUNAL AREAS

Understanding the variability of deposition practices involving human remains in Neolithic settlements of the northern Carpathian Basin: the Neolithic site of Vráble (Nitra district, Slovakia)
Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben

Exploring the Late Neolithic ditch: new data on dating, subsistence and environment from a circular enclosure at Bordoš, Vojvodina, Serbia
Robert Hofmann, Aleksandar Medovic, Slobodan B. Markovic, György Sipos, Sarah Pleuger-Dreibrodt, Rundall A. Schaetzl, Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Milica G. Radakovic, Ildiko Medovic, Desanka Kostic, Stefan Dreibrodt, Fynn Wilkes, Tijana Stankovic Pešterac, Martin Furholt

PART 4. ECONOMY AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES

Animal economy of the Lengyel Culture population in Slovakia and the case study of Kiarov
Noémi Beljak Pažinová, Katarína Šimunková, Alena Bistáková

Continuity in lithic tool production and raw material use at the Neolithic site of Karancsság, in the North-Hungarian Mountains (Nógrád county, Hungary)
Kata Furholt

Social and cultural diversity in the later prehistory of the Carpathian Basin: some implications
Eszter Bánffy

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Kata Furholt:

Kata Furholt is a research fellow and lecturer at Kiel University (CAU) in Germany. Since 2021, she has been working on the XSCAPE project (ERC Synergy grant) where she studies materiality in Prehistoric Societies with special attention to burial practices and how they relate to the objects and the body in the grave context in the light of the visuospatial perception.
Dr. Michael Kempf:

Michael earned Master’s degrees in Geography, Geology, Meteorology (2010) and Archaeology (2018) from the University of Freiburg. He successfully completed his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physical Geography at the same institution in June 2020. In the spring of 2020, he secured a two-year post-doctoral fellowship, funded by the European Union, at the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Following this, he took on the role of a Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Margaux L. C. Depaermentier:

Margaux L. C. Depaermentier’s academic career began with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Archaeology at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), followed by a Master of Arts degree in Early Medieval and Medieval Archaeology at the Alberts-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Germany). She obtained her PhD at the University of Basel (Switzerland), where her dissertation, “Late Antique and Early Medieval Social Structure in Basel from an Archaeological and Scientific Perspective,” advanced our understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval societies in this border region.
Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt:

Martin Furholt is Professor of Social Archaeology at Kiel University. His main research interests are the political dimension of social organisation in the past, and prehistoric mobility during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Europe. He is currently conducting fieldwork on 6th and 5th millennium BCE Neolithic settlement in Slovakia and Serbia, and publishes papers related to the ongoing 3rd millennium migration debate in Europe.