The Western Altmark versus Flintbek – palaeoecological research on two megalithic regions

Diers, Sarah; Jansen, Doris; Alsleben, Almuth; Dörfler, Walter; Müller, Johannes; Mischka, Doris

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.07.036

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“…However, in order to validate these models, it is also necessary to gather data on landscape deforestation (cf. Demnick et al 2008;Diers et al 2014). Forestfree spaces are a sine qua non for the functioning of such a system.…”

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Issues of Spatial Distribution of the Funnel Beaker Culture Barrows Cemeteries in Southeastern Poland

Król¹

2020

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Król D. 2020. Issues of spatial distribution of the monumental cemeteries of the Funnel Beaker culture in the loess landscape of southeastern Poland. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 72/1, 47-62. Varied monumental cemeteries were one of the most characteristic attributes of the Funnel Beaker culture communities in the 4 th Millennium BC. These structures have been well recognized in Northern, Western and Central Europe. This article shows several patterns of the placement of Funnel Beaker culture monumental cemeteries related to the natural landscape in southeastern Poland. Based on GIS spatial and statistical testing, it is reasonable to indicate possible rules of their functioning in the loess areas.

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Issues of Spatial Distribution of the Funnel Beaker Culture Barrows Cemeteries in Southeastern Poland

Król¹

2020

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“…In some Central European regions, there is evidence of increased economic exploitation, larger and demographically sustainable herds owned by one community and significant impact on the vegetation after 3500 BC (Ebersbach 2002; Dörfler 2008). Through grazing in forests, large herds of cattle could increase the ratio of light demanding hazel and birch (Diers et al 2014). Intensive mixed farming, closely integrating small-scale cultivation and small-scale herding, which was proposed for the Neolithic (especially LBK) by Bogaard (2004; 2005), could be undermined through larger herds during the Eneolithic.…”

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Population and forest dynamics during the Central European Eneolithic (4500–2000 BC)

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The population boom-and-bust during the European Neolithic (7000-2000 BC) has been the subject of lively discussion for the past decade. Most of the research on this topic was carried out with help of summed radiocarbon probability distributions. We aim to reconstruct population dynamics within the catchment of a medium sized lake on the basis of information on the presence of all known past human activities. We calculated a human activity model based on Monte Carlo simulations. The model showed the lowest level of human activity between 4000 and 3000 BC. For a better understanding of long-term socio-environmental dynamics, we also used the results of a pollen-based quantitative vegetation model, as well as a local macrophysical climate model. The beginning of the decline of archaeologically visible human activities corresponds with climatic changes and an increase in secondary forest taxa probably indicating more extensive land-use. In addition, important social and technological innovations, such as the introduction of the ard, wheel, animal traction and metallurgy, as well as changes in social hierarchy characterizing the same period.

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“…Furthermore, three substudies are already available on the relationship between environmental development, economy and monumentality: the differences between regional developments in land opening and monumentality have been described in an empirical study (Feeser and Furholt, 2014), and correlations between climate events and quantities of material culture have been investigated (Müller, 2015). A further comparative study also described differences in economics, land opening and local biographies of monuments (Diers et al, 2014).…”

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Monuments and economies: What drove their variability in the middle-Holocene Neolithic?

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In the regions of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, within the Neolithic ( c. 4100–1700 BCE), two episodes of intensified monumental burial construction are known: Funnel Beaker megaliths mainly from c. 3400–3100 BCE and Single Grave burial mounds from c. 2800–2500 BCE. So far, it remains unclear whether these boom phases of monumental construction were linked with phases of economic expansion, to phases of economic changes or to periods of economic crisis: do they precede and stimulate periods of economic growth? Or are they a social practice that results from social changes within the societies? To approach these research questions, we will use mainly information on the intensity of monumental construction phases, artefact depositions, environmental changes and changes in subsistence strategies as proxies for comparative studies. Our database comes from the southern Cimbrian Peninsula and adjacent areas. Being one of the most intensively archaeologically researched regions of Neolithic Europe, this region provides robust data sets. As a result, the study demonstrates that during the Funnel Beaker period, economy and ritual were closely interlinked, while disconnected in the Single Grave period.

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The Western Altmark versus Flintbek – palaeoecological research on two megalithic regions

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Issues of Spatial Distribution of the Funnel Beaker Culture Barrows Cemeteries in Southeastern Poland

Issues of Spatial Distribution of the Funnel Beaker Culture Barrows Cemeteries in Southeastern Poland

Population and forest dynamics during the Central European Eneolithic (4500–2000 BC)

Monuments and economies: What drove their variability in the middle-Holocene Neolithic?

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