{"product_id":"contacts-boundaries-and-innovation-in-the-fifth-millennium","title":"Contacts, boundaries and innovation in the fifth millennium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism, representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them defined through pottery only. This tension between large-scale interaction and more local developments remains ill understood, largely because inter-regional comparisons are lacking. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date regional overviews of the main developments in the fifth millennium and discuss, amongst others, in how far ceramically-defined 'cultures' can be seen as spatially coherent social groups with their own way of life and worldview, and how processes of innovation can be understood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Case studies range from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands, hunter-gatherer - farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to the Italian Neolithic. Amongst others, they cover the circulation of stone disc-rings in western Europe, the formation of post-LBK societies in central Europe and the reliability of pottery as an indicator for social transformations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fifth millennium: the emergence of cultural diversity in central European prehistory\u003cbr\u003eDaniela Hofmann and Ralf Gleser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Diverse populations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the periphery and at a crossroads: a Neolithic creole society on the Lower Vistula in the fifth millennium BC\u003cbr\u003ePeter Bogucki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Brzesc Kujawski culture. The north-easternmost Early Chalcolithic communities in Europe\u003cbr\u003eLech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Taboo? The process of Neolithisation in the Dutch wetlands re-examined (5000-3400 cal BC)\u003cbr\u003eD.C.M. Raemaekers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Interaction and change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fifth millennium BC in central Europe. Minor changes, structural continuity: a period of cultural stability\u003cbr\u003eChristian Jeunesse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Early Middle Neolithic pottery decoration - different cultural groups or just one supraregional style of its time?\u003cbr\u003eKarin Riedhammer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The oldest box-shaped wooden well from Saxony-Anhalt and the Stichbandkeramik culture in central Germany\u003cbr\u003eRené Wollenweber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A vessel with zoomorphic depiction from the Epi-Rössen horizon at Oberbergen am Kaiserstuhl: an evolutionary perspective on an unusual artefact\u003cbr\u003eRalf Gleser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Community, interaction and boundaries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Strategies of boundary making between northern and southern Italy in the late sixth and early fifth millennium BC\u003cbr\u003eValeska Becker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The transition from the sixth to the fifth millennium BC in the southern Wetterau - pottery as expression of contacts, boundaries and innovation\u003cbr\u003eJohanna Ritter-Burkert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the relationship of the Michelsberg culture and Epirössen groups in south-west Germany in the light of absolute chronology, aspects of culture definition, and spatial data\u003cbr\u003eUte Seidel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Schiepzig enclosures: gaps in the archaeological record at the end of the fifth millennium BC in northern central Germany?\u003cbr\u003eJohannes Müller, Kay Schmütz and Christoph Rinne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The jadeitite-omphacitite and nephrite axeheads in Europe: the case of the Czech Republic\u003cbr\u003eAntonín Prichystal, Josef Jan Kovár, Martin Kuca and Katerina Fridrichová\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Disc-rings of Alpine rock in western Europe: typology, chronology, distribution and social significance\u003cbr\u003ePierre Pétrequin, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Yvan Pailler, Frédéric Prodéo, Anne-Marie Pétrequin and Alison Sheridan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789088907159\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9789088907159","offer_id":39289591398493,"sku":"9789088907159","price":180.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5421eea4-a4cd-43d2-9ef1-e985ad6cce8e.jpg?v=1777957561","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/contacts-boundaries-and-innovation-in-the-fifth-millennium","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}