A Revision of Corded Ware Settlement Pattern –New Results from the Central European Low Mountain Range

Müller, Johannes; Seregély, Timo; Becker, Cornelia; Christensen, Anne-Mette; Fuchs, Markus; Kroll, Helmut; Mischka, Doris; Schüssler, Ulrich

doi:10.1017/s0079497x00000323

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“…Apart from the destruction caused by later land use, it has been proposed that Corded Ware groups did not deposit their material culture or waste in sub-surface features (pits) (Drenth et al 2008, 152), or even that they had strict cultural norms, which prohibited the construction of any sub-surface features and resulted in archaeologically less visible above-ground constructions and settlements (Neustupný 1997, 322;Krutová & Turek 2004, 49). Nevertheless, contradicting evidence has been unearthed in recent studies (see Hallgren 2000;Drenth et al 2008;Müller et al 2009;Larsson 2009b).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…In central Europe, for example, Corded Ware settlement sites have been gradually recognized over the recent years (e.g. Drenth et al 2008;Müller et al 2009;Włodarczak 2013). In Sweden Corded Ware longhouses have been discovered only during the last two or three decades, again due to changed excavation methods, in this case machine-stripping of topsoil from large areas (Larsson 1989;2009b;Hallgren 2000).…”

Section: Archaeological Definitions and Recognition Of Corded Ware Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Distribution of Corded Ware in the Areas North of the Gulf of Finland – An Update

Nordqvist¹,

Häkälä²

2014

Estonian J. Archaeol.

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Research of the Corded Ware phenomenon in the areas north of the Gulf of Finland has been scanty during the last several decades, and consequently outdated views, distribution maps, and numbers of finds still prevail. This paper aims to update data on the distribution of Corded Ware in Finland and Karelia (Russia), and to discuss the results in the context of the old research tradition, and to highlight some aspects of the northern Corded Ware. The current data shows that there are ca 360 Corded Ware settlement sites, 30 burial sites and over 1300 stray find locations of battle axes in the research area. Contrary to much of Europe the areas north of the Gulf of Finland accommodate a large amount of settlement sites but only a few burials. No singular reason for this can be pointed out but the most likely explanations include modest later land use at the locations, factors related to archaeological visibility and research methods, and also to local Corded Ware cultural practices. Despite certain shortcomings the northern Corded Ware material is exceptional and holds a great potential for further studies of the phenomenon, especially its domestic sphere and everyday practices.

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Section: The Role Of Cultural Practicesmentioning

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Section: Archaeological Definitions and Recognition Of Corded Ware Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distribution of Corded Ware in the Areas North of the Gulf of Finland – An Update

Nordqvist¹,

Häkälä²

2014

Estonian J. Archaeol.

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“…Prominent burials and elusive settlement signals have analogues with other points of European prehistory, such as the Corded Ware culture of Central Europe (Müller et al 2009). Thus, far from seeing a boom and bust of prehistoric populations at this time, we see-through contextualising the archaeological data-a record of cultural change, when settlement and economic activities were moderated, and where burial and megalithic monuments achieved greater prominence.…”

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The Changing Face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland: A Big Data Approach to the Settlement and Burial Records

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This paper synthesizes and discusses the spatial and temporal patterns of archaeological sites in Ireland, spanning the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age transition (4300-1900 cal BC), in order to explore the timing and implications of the main changes that occurred in the archaeological record of that period. Large amounts of new data are sourced from unpublished developer-led excavations and combined with national archives, published excavations and online databases. Bayesian radiocarbon models and contextand sample-sensitive summed radiocarbon probabilities are used to examine the dataset. The study captures the scale and timing of the initial expansion of Early Neolithic settlement and the ensuing attenuation of all such activity-an apparent boom-and-bust cycle. The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods are characterised by a resurgence and diversification of activity. Contextualisation and spatial analysis of radiocarbon data reveals finer-scale patterning than is usually possible with summed-probability approaches: the boom-and-bust models of prehistoric populations may, in fact, be a misinterpretation of more subtle demographic changes occurring at the same time as cultural change and attendant differences in the archaeological record.

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“…We do not observe a strong decrease in forest vegetation in Northern and Central Europe until the Bronze Age, however. On the other hand, there is limited evidence that Corded Ware people were horse herders, and evidence from settlements in central Europe suggests they may have practiced mixed agriculture (Müller et al, 2009;Seregély and Müller, 2008;Jacomet, 2008).…”

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A geostatistical approach to modelling human Holocene migrations in Europe using ancient DNA

Racimo

Woodbridge

Fyfe

et al. 2019

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The European continent was subject to two major migrations of peoples during the Holocene: the northwestward movement of Anatolian farmer populations during the Neolithic and the westward movement of Yamnaya steppe peoples during the Bronze Age. These movements changed the genetic composition of the continent's inhabitants, via admixture and population replacement processes. The Holocene was also characterized by major changes in vegetation composition, which altered the environment occupied by the original hunter-gatherer populations. Here, we use a combination of paleogenomics and geostatistical modelling to produce detailed maps of the movement of these populations over time and space, and to understand how these movements impacted the European vegetation landscape. We find that the dilution of hunter-gatherer ancestries and the Yamnaya steppe migration coincided with a reduction in the amount of broad-leaf forest and an increase in the amount of pasture lands in the continent. We also show that climate played a role in these vegetational changes. Additionally, we find that the spread of Neolithic farmer ancestry had a two-pronged wavefront, in agreement with similar findings based on patterns of the cultural spread of farming from radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites. With thousands of ancient genomes publicly available and in production, we foresee that the integration of ancient DNA with geostatistical techniques and large-scale archaeological datasets will revolutionize the study of ancient populations movements, and their effects on local fauna and flora.

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A Revision of Corded Ware Settlement Pattern –New Results from the Central European Low Mountain Range

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Distribution of Corded Ware in the Areas North of the Gulf of Finland – An Update

Distribution of Corded Ware in the Areas North of the Gulf of Finland – An Update

The Changing Face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland: A Big Data Approach to the Settlement and Burial Records

A geostatistical approach to modelling human Holocene migrations in Europe using ancient DNA

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