{"product_id":"contacts-boundaries-and-innovation-in-the-fifth-millennium-1","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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The fifth millennium: the emergence of cultural diversity in central European prehistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniela Hofmann and Ralf Gleser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part 1: Diverse populations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On the periphery and at a crossroads: a Neolithic creole society on the Lower Vistula in the fifth millennium BC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Bogucki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Brze¿¿ Kujawski culture. The north-easternmost Early Chalcolithic communities in Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Taboo? The process of Neolithisation in the Dutch wetlands re-examined (5000¿3400 cal BC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD.C.M. Raemaekers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part 2: Interaction and change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The fifth millennium BC in central Europe. Minor changes, structural continuity: a period of cultural stability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Jeunesse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Early Middle Neolithic pottery decoration ¿ different cultural groups or just one supraregional style of its time?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarin Riedhammer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The oldest box-shaped wooden well from Saxony-Anhalt and the Stichbandkeramik culture in central Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRené Wollenweber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A vessel with zoomorphic depiction from the Epi-Rössen horizon at Oberbergen am Kaiserstuhl: an evolutionary perspective on an unusual artefact\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalf Gleser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part 3: Community, interaction and boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Strategies of boundary making between northern and southern Italy in the late sixth and early fifth millennium BC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValeska Becker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The transition from the sixth to the fifth millennium BC in the southern Wetterau ¿ pottery as expression of contacts, boundaries and innovation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohanna Ritter-Burkert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUte Seidel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Schiepzig enclosures: gaps in the archaeological record at the end of the fifth millennium BC in northern central Germany?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohannes Müller, Kay Schmütz and Christoph Rinne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The jadeitite-omphacitite and nephrite axeheads in Europe: the case of the Czech Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonín P¿ichystal, Josef Jan Ková¿, Martin Küa and Kate¿ina Fridrichová\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Disc-rings of Alpine rock in western Europe: typology, chronology, distribution and social significance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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-9789088907142\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9789088907142","offer_id":39456771670109,"sku":"9789088907142","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/fab3e47b-ed6c-4cac-902c-674349ef54f7.jpg?v=1776408334","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/contacts-boundaries-and-innovation-in-the-fifth-millennium-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}