Archaeology in the ¿itava valley II

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6427-084-6
Verlag: Sidestone Press Academics

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1177 g

Reihe: Scales of Transformation 20

This volume presents the second part of the results of an international research project on the Early Neolithic site of Vráble, one of the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, that was started in 2012 and aims to explore the social implications of settlement concentration in the context of early farming communities, on the background of subsistence patterns and landscape use.

The second volume of “Archaeology in the Žitava valley” presents the finds, features and data uncovered and synthesised from our archaeological, geophysical, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and stable isotope studies on the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites of Vlkas ‘Do hulského chotára’ and Úlany nad Žitavou ‘Dolné diely’ among other sites in south-western Slovakia. It puts these data into the wider context of LBK settlement patterns and absolute dating in Central Europe and explores possible land-use scenarios. Finally, it links this research back to the LBK settlement agglomeration of Vráble and analyses the relationship between this central place and lesser sites in its vicinity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheben, Ivan

Furholt, Martin

Rassmann, Knut

Bistakova, Alena

Wunderlich, Maria

Müller-Scheeßel, Nils

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prefaces

Section 1: Introduction

1.1. Introduction to the geographic setting and the archaeological research project in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Knut Rassmann, Nils Müller-Scheeßel

Section 2: Spatial scales

2.1. The geographic environment in the settlement area of the LBK and its limits to its adjacent regions
Fynn Wilkes

2.2. Geophysical investigations at Úlany nad Žitavou and Vlkas in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Natalie Pickartz, Tina Wunderlich, Erica Corradini, Ercan Erkul, Diana Panning, Dennis Wilken, Martin Furholt, Wolfgang Rabbel

2.3. Prospection results of the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Bastian Breitenfeld

Section 3: Social scales

3.1. Built structures of the Early Neolithic in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Robert Staniuk, Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben

3.2. Pottery and ornamental styles of the Early Neolithic in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Ivan Cheben, Alena Bistáková

3.3. The animal remains at the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites Úlany nad Zitavou and Vlkas in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Rebekka Eckelmann, Nils Eberle

3.4. Availability and choice of plant resources at the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites Úlany nad Žitavou and Vlkas in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia: Archaeobotanical and anthracological analyses
Dragana Filipovic, Tim M. Schroedter, Tanja Reiser, Wiebke Kirleis

3.5. Integrated plant and faunal stable isotopic analysis from the archaeozoological and archaeobotanical assemblages of the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites Úlany nad Žitavou and Vlkas in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Rosalind E. Gillis, Rebekka Eckelmann, Dragana Filipovic

Section 4: Temporal scales

4.1. Radiocarbon dates from the Early Neolithic settlement sites Úlany nad Žitavou and Vlkas in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia
Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Robert Staniuk, John Meadows, Martin Furholt

4.2. The absolute dating of the Late LBK
Tine Karck, Nils Müller-Scheeßel

Section 5: Integrating scales

5.1. Simulating land use scenarios for the LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble, south-western Slovakia
Julian Laabs

5.2. Spatial modelling of LBK and Lengyel settlement territories in eastern Central Europe: A new approach to understanding population dynamics, social structures, and exchange networks
Sebastian Schultrich, Knut Rassmann, Kata Szilágyi, Martin Furholt

5.3. Prehistoric communities in the Žitava valley, south-western Slovakia – integrating scales
Maria Wunderlich, Ivan Cheben, Alena Bistáková, Martin Furholt, Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Robert Staniuk

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Knut Rassmann:

Knut Rassmann is a researcher at the German Archaeological Institute and head of the Department of Survey and Excavation Methodology at the German Archaeological Institute. Previously he was Scientific Editor for the Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission (RGK). He obtained his PhD in 1991 at the Freie Universität Berlin. His main interests are landscape archaeology, survey and excavation methodology, and the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age in Europe.
Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt:

Martin Furholt is Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Before he was working as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the CAU Kiel. His main research interests are the social and political organisation, mobility and community composition, local and regional social networks of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in Southeast Europe, Central Europe, and Northern Europe.
Alena Bistáková:

Alena Bistáková is Researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra. Her main interests are material culture studies, settlement structures and burial rite of Neolithic and Copper Age periods in Central Europe. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Slovakia. She has worked on projects in Central Europe, covering the Neolithic to the Bronze Age and archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment. She is part of the Vra´ble project since 2018.
Ivan Cheben:

Ivan Cheben is a Researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra. His main research interests are material culture studies and settlement patterns of Neolithic and Copper Age periods in Central Europe. He has an extensive experience in archaeological fieldwork in Slovakia, and served as the head of rescue excavations in SW Slovakia for many years. Since 2012 he is head of the Vra´ble fieldwork project.
Nils Mu¨ller-Scheeßel:

Nils Mu¨ller-Scheeßel is Scientific Editor and Lecturer at Kiel University. He has worked on several projects in central and south-eastern Europe, covering the Neolithic to the Iron Age, and joined the Vra´ble project in 2016. His particular interests include the means and meaning of the disposal of the dead, landscape archaeology, the possibilities of remote sensing, as well as quantitative methods.
Dr. Maria Wunderlich:

Maria Wunderlich is currently a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Pre-and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University. For her PhD-studies between 2014 and 2018 she was involved in the DFG-project “Equality and Inequality: Social Differentiation in Northern Central Europe 4300-2400 BC” as a research assistant. For her comparative thesis on “Megalithic monuments and social structures” she conducted ethnoarchaeological field work in Sumba, Indonesia, and Nagaland, North-East India. Being interested in social archaeology and comparative analyses, she combines different theoretical approaches with material data derived both in recent and archaeological contexts.