Mord oder Opferung? Die Niederlegung der „Sieben“ in Grube V1141 am Kirchhügel von Stillfried

Hellerschmid, Irmtraud

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“…20–30 ha and evidence for spatial planning (Urban 2000 , 188–190). Examples of such early centres, which pre-date Iron Age urbanization (Fernández-Götz, Wendling, and Winger 2014 ; Guichard, Sievers, and Urban 2000 ), include Stillfried (Griebl and Hellerschmid 2015 ; Hellerschmid 2015 ) and Thunau am Kamp (Kern 2001 ; Wewerka 2001 ) in Austria.…”

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Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe

Rebay‐Salisbury

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Salisbury

et al. 2021

Childhood in the Past

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Small ceramic vessels with spouts, from which liquid can be poured, became popular during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Central Europe (c. 1200-600 BC). Such feeding vessels represent a functional type and are highly variable in size, shape and decoration. Found both on settlements and within graves, their association with child burials suggest they might have been used to feed babies and small children. Combined lipid and isotope analysis was performed on 24 of these feeding vessels, with seven delivering interpretable results. Feeding vessels associated with child burials tend to deliver a ruminant milk signal, whereas other vessels were used to process ruminant and non-ruminant adipose fats. Here, we highlight the potential significance of feeding vessels as indicators of changing childcare practices during times of population increase, settlement nucleation and mobility, possibly involving out-sourcing the feeding of babies and small children to persons other than the mother.

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Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe

Rebay‐Salisbury

Dunne

Salisbury

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“…None of the excavated storage pits contained major amounts of refuse as would have been the case had they been used for waste disposal [40], they had obviously been filled with rather homogeneous soil within short periods. Still, their excavation yielded a relatively large number and diversity of objects, often in unusual states or combinations: in at least two of the pits, human skulls were deposited [41] as were seven dead bodies in another pit [42, 43]. Eighteen terminated storage pits contained the deliberately deposited carcasses of domestic animals, as well as apparently tamed wild animals, some of which had died of old age such as wolves, hares and red deer [44].…”

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“…Following D. Garrow’s definitions, most of these find assemblages correspond to “odd deposits” [45], which are outlined by one or more of the following characteristics: a) an extraordinary selection of finds, b) an exceptional state of preservation, c) a remarkable number or combination of finds, or d) exceptional find situations within a deposit or an unusual location of the find assemblage itself. These “odd” deposits from the secondary fillings of the storage pits probably cannot be understood without implying ritualised processes for placing those objects in the pits [42, 46–48].…”

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The Hoard of the Rings. “Odd” annular bread-like objects as a case study for cereal-product diversity at the Late Bronze Age hillfort site of Stillfried (Lower Austria)

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Cereals, in addition to being a major ingredient in daily meals, also play a role in the preparation of foodstuffs for ritual purposes. This paper deals with finds that may correspond to such ritual preparations retrieved from the hillfort site of Stillfried an der March. The site, spreading across an area of ca. 23 ha, held a very important position among settlements of Late Urnfield period (particularly during the 10th– 9 th c. BCE), acting as a central place where large scale storage of grain as well as textile and metal production took place under the control of local elites. Three incomplete ring-shaped charred organic objects, found together with 14 rings and ring fragments made of clay were discovered in a secondary filled silo pit, excavated among a total of about 100 pits of this kind at the site. The overall good state of preservation of the organic ring fragments suggests that they were deposited intact on the bottom of the pit and covered well so that no re-deposition or damage occurred. This could be indicate their intentional placement in this position. Light and scanning electron microscopy revealed that the charred organic rings are cereal products containing hulled barley and a wheat species. Indications that the objects were shaped from a wet cereal mixture and had been subsequently dried without baking are discussed, as well as the possible significance of the find assemblage. The annular objects are put in context with the contemporary cereal spectrum as well as other cereal preparations from Stillfried, outlining their different chaînes opératoires for handling cereal food.

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The First ‘Urnfields’ in the Plains of the Danube and the Po

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Archaeological research is currently redefining how large-scale changes occurred in prehistoric times. In addition to the long-standing theoretical dichotomy between ‘cultural transmission’ and ‘demic diffusion’, many alternative models borrowed from sociology can be used to explain the spread of innovations. The emergence of urnfields in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe is certainly one of these large-scale phenomena; its wide distribution has been traditionally emphasized by the use of the general term Urnenfelderkultur/zeit (starting around 1300 BC). Thanks to new evidence, we are now able to draw a more comprehensive picture, which shows a variety of regional responses to the introduction of the new funerary custom. The earliest ‘urnfields’ can be identified in central Hungary, among the tell communities of the late Nagyrév/Vatya Culture, around 2000 BC. From the nineteenth century BC onwards, the urnfield model is documented among communities in northeastern Serbia, south of the Iron Gates. During the subsequent collapse of the tell system, around 1500 BC, the urnfield model spread into some of the neighbouring regions. The adoption, however, appears more radical in the southern Po plain, as well as in the Sava/Drava/Lower Tisza plains, while in Lower Austria, Transdanubia and in the northern Po plain it seems more gradual and appears to have been subject to processes of syncretism/hybridization with traditional rites. Other areas seem to reject the novelty, at least until the latest phases of the Bronze Age. We argue that a possible explanation for these varied responses relates to the degree of interconnectedness and homophily among communities in the previous phases.

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Mord oder Opferung? Die Niederlegung der „Sieben“ in Grube V1141 am Kirchhügel von Stillfried

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Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe

Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe

The Hoard of the Rings. “Odd” annular bread-like objects as a case study for cereal-product diversity at the Late Bronze Age hillfort site of Stillfried (Lower Austria)

The First ‘Urnfields’ in the Plains of the Danube and the Po

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