Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

Kristiansen, Kristian; Allentoft, Morten E.; Frei, Karin Margarita; Iversen, Rune; Johannsen, Niels N.; Kroonen, Guus; Pospieszny, Łukasz; Price, T. Douglas; Rasmussen, Simon; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Sikora, Martin; Willerslev, Eske

doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.17

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“…Furthermore, female exogamy has to be expected when migrants are predominantly male. That this was actually the case is supported by isotopic and aDNA studies from central Europe (Goldberg, Günther, Rosenberg, & Jakobsson, 2017;Kristiansen et al, 2017;Sjögren, Price, & Kristiansen, 2016).…”

Section: The Rise Of the Warriormentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Somewhat similar interpretations including warrior brotherhoods (Männerbünde) are also applied in the description of Late Neolithic/Bronze Age cultures such as the Yamnaya culture and the Danish variant of the Bell Beaker culture (e.g. Anthony, 2007: 364;Kristiansen et al, 2017;Sarauw, 2007). In general, a certain warrior identity seems to develop in the later European Neolithic to become a central element of the Bronze Age male ideal (C. J.…”

Section: The Rise Of the Warriormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such groups of young males were highly mobile and willing to take risks by undertaking pioneering migrations (Kristiansen et al, 2017). A striking feature of many early Corded Ware societies is actually that male burials predominate; on the Jutland Peninsula close to 90% of the graves from the earliest phase (c. 2850-2600 BC) are male burials (Hübner, 2005: 632-633, fig.…”

Section: The Rise Of the Warriormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Big-Men and Small Chiefs: The Creation of Bronze Age Societies

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This paper investigates to what extent the significant material changes observable at the end of the Neolithic reflect transformations of the underlying social dynamics. Answering this question will help us to understand the formation of Bronze Age societies. The analysis concerns southern Scandinavia with a certain focus on Denmark. The assumption is that the creation of Bronze Age societies must be understood as a long formative process that partly originated in the culturally-heterogeneous Middle Neolithic. Four aspects seem to have been essential to this process: the rise of the warrior figure, the reintroduction of metal, increased agricultural production, and the establishment of one of the characteristic features of the Bronze Age, the chieftain hall. These aspects do not appear simultaneously but are introduced stepby-step starting out in the late Middle Neolithic and early Late Neolithic to fully develop around 2000 BC. Consequently, this paper argues that the final Late Neolithic (LN II, c. 1950-1700 BC) was de facto part of the Earliest Bronze Age.

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“…The emergence of Corded Ware groups throughout Europe in the early 3 rd Millennium BC is one of the most defining periods in European history [1]. From the Wolga to the Rhine, these groups used the same material culture and kept similar practices, in particular funerary rituals.…”

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“…Throughout this vast region the dead were given almost identical burial gifts; men were buried semi-flexed on their right side, heads pointing west and facing south; women on their left side with the head towards the east, facing south. Recent ancient DNA (aDNA) studies of the Corded Ware Culture (CWC) explain its emergence as the result of massive migrations and high individual mobility among steppe populations during the third millennium BC [1–3]. However, it is not self-evident that the homogeneity we perceive is the direct result of migrations [4,5].…”

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The impact of male burials on the construction of Corded Ware identity: Reconstructing networks of information in the 3rd millennium BC

Bourgeois

Kroon

2017

PLoS ONE

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The emergence of Corded Ware Groups throughout Europe in the 3rd millennium BC is one of the most defining events in European history. From the Wolga to the Rhine communities start to speak Indo-European languages and bury their dead in an extremely similar fashion. Recent ancient DNA-analyses identify a massive migration from the Eurasian steppe as the prime cause for this event. However, there is a fundamental difference between expressing a Corded Ware identity—the sharing of world views and ideas—and having a specific DNA-profile. Therefore, we argue that investigating the exchange of cultural information on burial rites between these communities serves as a crucial complement to the exchange of biological information. By adopting a practice perspective to 1161 Corded Ware burials throughout north-western Europe, combined with similarity indexes and network representations, we demonstrate a high degree of information sharing on the burial ritual between different regions. Moreover, we show that male burials are much more international in character than female burials and as such can be considered as the vector along which cultural information and Corded Ware identity was transmitted. This finding highlights an underlying complex societal organization of Corded Ware burial rites in which gender roles had a significant impact on the composition and transmission of cultural information. Our findings corroborate recent studies that suggest the Corded Ware was a male focused society.

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Population Genomic Analyses of DNA from Ancient Remains

Jakobsson

2019

Handbook of Statistical Genomics

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Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

Cited by 177 publications

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Big-Men and Small Chiefs: The Creation of Bronze Age Societies

Big-Men and Small Chiefs: The Creation of Bronze Age Societies

The impact of male burials on the construction of Corded Ware identity: Reconstructing networks of information in the 3rd millennium BC

Population Genomic Analyses of DNA from Ancient Remains

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