Current Research on Bronze Age ‘Cooking Stone Pits’ in Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia

Maida, Stefanie Schaefer-Di

doi:10.1017/eaa.2022.19

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“…Of the twenty-five pits identified by magnetometry, eleven were excavated either completely or partially (Figure S5). Despite varying states of preservation, they typically contain a charcoal layer with overlying stone packing, soil and stone material reddened by fire exposure, and very few finds (Honeck, 2009: 10–15; Beigel, 2019: 120–22; Schaefer-Di Maida, 2022: 463–64). Their exact structures and finds (Figure 6h–l) will be presented in a future article.…”

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Long-term Rural Settlement Continuity and Land Use during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Northern Franconian Low Mountain Range

Seregély,

Kothieringer,

Jansen

et al. 2024

Eur. j. archaeol

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In this article, the authors present the salient archaeological results of a diachronic, interdisciplinary research project on rural settlement and land use in a region of low mountains in southern Germany. Despite clear locational disadvantages, in particular great distances to drinking water sources, archaeological excavations and an extensive dating programme document an unexpectedly long continuity of prehistoric settlement in the area.

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Long-term Rural Settlement Continuity and Land Use during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Northern Franconian Low Mountain Range

Seregély,

Kothieringer,

Jansen

et al. 2024

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…Bayesian chronological modelling is increasingly being applied to studies of prehistoric cemeteries, including non-megalithic barrow cemeteries from north-western Europe. A frequent challenge is the lack of direct stratigraphic relationships between individual monuments and applications tend to address cemeteries with informative prior information based on, for instance, artefact typology or burial sequences within single monuments (eg, Garrow et al 2014;Bourgeois & Fontijn 2015;Aranda Jiménez et al 2020;2022). Robust prior information is, however, often not available, mainly due to preservation issues, and the majority of non-megalithic barrow cemeteries remain relatively dated using typo-chronology or dendrochronology (eg, Christensen 2006).…”

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Dynamic Funerary Monuments of North-western Europe: Chronological Modelling of a Late Neolithic–Pre-Roman Iron Age Cemetery Complex at Mang de Bargen, Northern Germany

AGERSKOV ROSE,

SCHAEFER-DI MAIDA,

KNEISEL

2024

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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This study presents the first extensive radiocarbon dating programme of Bronze Age material from northern Germany, and it combines radiocarbon dates, relative typo-chronological date ranges, and stratigraphic data within a Bayesian chronological framework. We estimate the cemetery complex at Mang de Bargen (Bornhöved, distr. Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein) to be in use for more than two millennia, which is exceptionally long in northern Germany and in a wider European context. The site provides a unique insight into the dynamic nature of burial monuments and associated burial practices, from the Late Neolithic and into the Pre-Roman Iron Age (c. 2500–50 bc). The barrow building tradition lasted around a millennium (c. 2350 –1300 bc), with several barrows in concurrent use. The barrows were persistently re-used as burial ground, both within ‘living memory’ of the primary graves, but also long after. The burial intensity varied over the cemetery’s use-life, with distinct peaks in the Late Neolithic, when the first barrows were erected; in the Older Bronze Age when more barrows were erected; in the Younger Bronze Age, when secondary cremation graves were added to existing barrows; and finally in the Pre-Roman Iron Age, with the addition of an urnfield. The funerary rituals vary considerably over the period: from inhumation to cremation, and from primary and secondary graves in barrows to flat graves. Cremation was introduced in the 14th century bc but inhumation and cremation were used in parallel for around a century before the former ritual was abandoned c. 1300 bc. The study provides absolute chronological distributions of the grave types present at Mang de Bargen and shows them to be comparable to other sites at a regional and over-regional scale, successfully demonstrating how new types were quickly adopted across large parts of north-western Europe.

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Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory

Schaefer-Di Maida,

Laabs,

Wunderlich

et al. 2024

Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

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Political practices are fundamental for co-existence in human groups, yet the systematic investigation of such practices within prehistoric societies is still very much pending. Relevant discussions are often limited to cases of obvious asymmetric power relations and the alleged establishment of elites. In order to fill this complex gap in the current discussion we take a systematic approach exploring the nature and organisation of prehistoric power relations, decision-making and conflict resolution. We investigate changes in political practices through a diachronic set of case studies from prehistoric west Eurasia, examining the impact of these changes on the overall transformative processes of prehistoric sociality.Here, we explore a set of parameters in five case studies from prehistoric Eurasia in order to characterise power relations and to reconstruct political negotiation and decision-making processes that constitute political practices. The case studies exhibit socio-political complexity in a variety of forms, encompassing a wide range of situations from Mesolithic Siberia, LBK Vráble Slovakia, Neolithic Pile-dwellings Switzerland, Copper Age Tripolye Ukraine, Neolithic and Bronze Age Schleswig-Holstein, to Iron Age Greece. As archaeological proxies, eight parameters have been identified as markers of political practice to be used as a comparative framework: community site, conformity/diversity, (critical) resource access and distribution, network configurations, organisation of decision-making, property rights, (violent) conflict and resolution, and knowledge.In this chapter we aim to develop a systematic approach for the analysis of political practices in order to enable the identification of patterns of power relations within the prehistory of Eurasia. This way we will develop a long-term perspective on transformations of these practices at a geographical macro scale.

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Current Research on Bronze Age ‘Cooking Stone Pits’ in Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Long-term Rural Settlement Continuity and Land Use during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Northern Franconian Low Mountain Range

Long-term Rural Settlement Continuity and Land Use during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Northern Franconian Low Mountain Range

Dynamic Funerary Monuments of North-western Europe: Chronological Modelling of a Late Neolithic–Pre-Roman Iron Age Cemetery Complex at Mang de Bargen, Northern Germany

Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory

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