Geschlechtsdifferenzierte Bestattungssitten im Neolithikum und in der frühen Bronzezeit Mitteleuropas

Häusler, Alexander

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“…Gimbutas' explanation of the archaeological record has naturally not escaped criticism since it does not accord with the evidence (Häusler 1994;Chapman 1999). It is nevertheless interesting because of its unique position.…”

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Commemorative tales: Archaeological responses to modern myth, politics, and war

Vandkilde

2003

World Archaeology

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Academic archaeology of the twentieth century has strangely ignored warfare and violence as relevant aspects of past human activity despite sufficient evidence of war-related traumata , weaponry, warrior burials, and war-celebrative iconographies. Instead -and relatively independently of paradigmatic shifts -two commemorative tales about warriors and peasants in the European societies of the Stone and Bronze Ages have been created. The two archaeological tales are stereotypes positioned at opposite ends of the scale, and they confirm or react against contemporary politics, ideologies, gender hierarchies, and wars. The generally weak presence of war and the final breakthrough of war studies in the mid-1990s can indeed be linked to contemporary politics and war. They are simultaneously entrenched in two myths about the primitive other, which have persuasively influenced European thought at least since the seventeenth century. The emergence of warfare studies in archaeology can be understood as a social response to the many ethnic-based wars of the 1990s. Yet the theme of war is treated in a rational manner, which belies the disaster, suffering, and horror involved in all wars, past or present. This rationalization of prehistoric war begs further consideration: through a comparison with the newest anthropology of war it is discussed how the archaeology of war can avoid becoming celebration of war and thus reproduction of the war mythology of the nation state.

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Commemorative tales: Archaeological responses to modern myth, politics, and war

Vandkilde

2003

World Archaeology

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“…For example, the presence of ochre as both nodules and powder at Niedermerz, the use of Danubian river shells as opposed to imported species, cremation, and burial in a right crouched or extended position and/or with head to the west, have all been seen as indicating a 'Mesolithic' origin for the people treated in this way (e.g. Häusler, 1994;Bentley et al, 2002;Jeunesse, 2006;Lenneis, 2007). What this outlook neglects is that cemetery burial was a novelty for both population groups potentially involvedprecedents existed neither in Mesolithic central Europe nor in early Neolithic Hungary.…”

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What Have Genetics Ever Done for Us? The Implications of aDNA Data for Interpreting Identity in Early Neolithic Central Europe

Hofmann¹

2015

Eur. j. archaeol.

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This paper is concerned with the impact of ancient DNA data on our models of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in central Europe. Beginning with a brief overview of how genetic data have been received by archaeologists working in this area, it outlines the potential and remaining problems of this kind of evidence. As a migration around the beginning of the Neolithic now seems certain, new research foci are then suggested. One is renewed attention to the motivations and modalities of the migration process. The second is a fundamental change in attitude towards the capabilities of immigrant Neolithic populations to behave in novel and creative ways, abilities which in our transition models were long exclusively associated with hunter-gatherers.

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“…The classic narrative of the development of these rites in Europe presented, for example, by Harding (2000) following Häusler (1977, 1994, 1996), can be summarised as follows: In the Early and Middle Bronze Age, inhumations dominated in different variations. Cremation burials in this time only occurred in the Hungarian lowlands.…”

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Evaluating Cultural Transmission in Bronze Age burial rites of Central, Northern and Northwestern Europe using radiocarbon data

Schmid

2019

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European Bronze Age archaeology traditionally focusses on two major dimensions to categorise burials – although there is an immense variability of attendant phenomena within this spectrum – flat graves versus burial mounds and cremation versus inhumation. These traits are an indispensable ingredient for common archaeological narratives of sociocultural interaction and cultural evolution. This article presents a quantitative reconstruction of the general trends in the distribution of Bronze Age burial traditions based on bulk radiocarbon data and employs the resulting time series for the estimation of macro-regional cultural distance. Despite the relatively small amount of input data, the trend reconstruction fits to established archaeological observations for prehistoric Europe. The comparison of cultural and spatial distance leads to the remarkable result of no significant permanent correlation, which indicates that the spread of the relevant aspects of burial traditions cannot be explained with simple diffusion models. Instead, a more complex process of cultural transmission has to be considered.

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Geschlechtsdifferenzierte Bestattungssitten im Neolithikum und in der frühen Bronzezeit Mitteleuropas

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Commemorative tales: Archaeological responses to modern myth, politics, and war

Commemorative tales: Archaeological responses to modern myth, politics, and war

What Have Genetics Ever Done for Us? The Implications of aDNA Data for Interpreting Identity in Early Neolithic Central Europe

Evaluating Cultural Transmission in Bronze Age burial rites of Central, Northern and Northwestern Europe using radiocarbon data

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