The Development of Social Inequality in the Carpathian Basin between 5200 and 1000 BCE
A Quantitative Study on Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Cemeteries and Methodological Considerations
Fynn Wilkes | Forthcoming
This dissertation investigates the dynamics of social inequality in the Carpathian Basin between the Late Neolithic and the Middle/Late Bronze Age (5200–1000 BCE) through a quantitative analysis of burial contexts. Employing statistical methods, including Gini…
Death in Times of Change
Transformations of Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher Burial Rituals Between the Baltic and the Urals
Anastasia Khramtsova | Forthcoming
This book examines burial rituals among prehistoric communities that inhabited the East European forest zone between ca. 9500 and 2700 cal BCE. Based on evidence from 130 burial sites with a total of 1406 graves…
Coastal Archaeology in Small Islands
Prehistoric Lifeways, Research Perceptions, Biases, Methods and Approaches
Edited by Maaike S. de Waal | Forthcoming
The potential of investigating archaeology on small islands has long been underestimated. Non-local archaeologists often regard such islands as offering (too) few opportunities for prehistoric use and habitation due to limited resources and isolation, whereas…
Parures incarnées / Incarnated Ornaments
Les ornements corporels comme miroirs des identités et mobilités aux âges des Métaux / Body Adornments as Mirrors of Identities and Movements in the Metal Ages
Edited by Marilou Nordez | Forthcoming
Les ornements corporels subliment le corps humain, le rendant plus beau, plus impressionnant ou plus désirable. Associées aux vêtements, accessoires ou tatouages, les parures participent d’un système de signes révélant le statut, le rôle et…
Elite Mobility and Funerary Practices in Early Iron Age Europe
Edited by Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof | Forthcoming
Across Europe, from the British Isles to Central Europe, archaeologists have uncovered the lavish burials of Early Iron Age elites—powerful figures who shaped the continent’s protohistory through vast networks of influence and exchange. Yet, modern…
Late Neolithic transformation processes
Technological changes and society in the Dagger period
Edited by Malou Blank & Johannes Müller | Forthcoming
Around 2200–1700 BCE, Scandinavia and Central Europe were shaped by significant socio-environmental transformations. Between central Germany and northern Norway, Nordic flint daggers symbolise these changes—across different societies and under varying environmental conditions. For the first…
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
A place for the living
Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham | Forthcoming
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The…
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The Development of Social Inequality in the Carpathian Basin between 5200 and 1000 BCE
A Quantitative Study on Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Cemeteries and Methodological Considerations
Fynn Wilkes | Forthcoming
This dissertation investigates the dynamics of social inequality in the Carpathian Basin between the Late Neolithic and the Middle/Late Bronze Age (5200–1000 BCE) through a quantitative analysis of burial contexts. Employing statistical methods, including Gini…
Death in Times of Change
Transformations of Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher Burial Rituals Between the Baltic and the Urals
Anastasia Khramtsova | Forthcoming
This book examines burial rituals among prehistoric communities that inhabited the East European forest zone between ca. 9500 and 2700 cal BCE. Based on evidence from 130 burial sites with a total of 1406 graves…
Coastal Archaeology in Small Islands
Prehistoric Lifeways, Research Perceptions, Biases, Methods and Approaches
Edited by Maaike S. de Waal | Forthcoming
The potential of investigating archaeology on small islands has long been underestimated. Non-local archaeologists often regard such islands as offering (too) few opportunities for prehistoric use and habitation due to limited resources and isolation, whereas…
Parures incarnées / Incarnated Ornaments
Les ornements corporels comme miroirs des identités et mobilités aux âges des Métaux / Body Adornments as Mirrors of Identities and Movements in the Metal Ages
Edited by Marilou Nordez | Forthcoming
Les ornements corporels subliment le corps humain, le rendant plus beau, plus impressionnant ou plus désirable. Associées aux vêtements, accessoires ou tatouages, les parures participent d’un système de signes révélant le statut, le rôle et…
Elite Mobility and Funerary Practices in Early Iron Age Europe
Edited by Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof | Forthcoming
Across Europe, from the British Isles to Central Europe, archaeologists have uncovered the lavish burials of Early Iron Age elites—powerful figures who shaped the continent’s protohistory through vast networks of influence and exchange. Yet, modern…
Late Neolithic transformation processes
Technological changes and society in the Dagger period
Edited by Malou Blank & Johannes Müller | Forthcoming
Around 2200–1700 BCE, Scandinavia and Central Europe were shaped by significant socio-environmental transformations. Between central Germany and northern Norway, Nordic flint daggers symbolise these changes—across different societies and under varying environmental conditions. For the first…
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
A place for the living
Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley & Kate Welham | Forthcoming
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The…
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