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From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for instance, the expansion and increasing density of settlement, progressive regionalisation in pottery decoration, and at the end some signs of stress or even localised crisis. Although showing many features in common across its very broad distribution, however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere the same, and there is a complicated mixture of uniformity and diversity. This major study takes a strikingly large regional sample, from northern Hungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley, and addresses the question of the extent of diversity in the lifeways of developed and late LBK communities, through a wide-ranging study of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physical condition, the presentation of the bodies of the deceased in mortuary ritual. It uses an innovative combination of isotopic (principally carbon, nitrogen and strontium, with some oxygen), osteological and archaeological analysis to address difference and change across the LBK, and to reflect on cultural change in general.

Bandkeramik culture --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Social archaeology --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Europe, Central --- Antiquities.

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This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material wealth in enclosure ditches.0This is the kind of behaviour that archaeologists generally interpret as ritual (often using the label "structured deposition"), but it is surprisingly little discussed for the Linearbandkeramik. This volume thus addresses two main goals. First, it contributes a new approach to the study of Linearbandkeramik world view by focusing on depositional practices more generally and addressing the connections between them. How do the more striking or unusual examples of deposition articulate with routine discard, and what does this tell us about how Linearbandkeramik societies saw these objects and their use? Second, given the wealth of data available for the Linearbandkeramik, there is an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding the variety of depositional phenomena across the European Neolithic and their theoretical and methodological implications.0This book thus combines chapters dealing with routine discard, as well as those concerned with burial evidence, formalised deposition of objects and feasting debris.

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- History --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological assemblages --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Bandkeramik culture --- Bandkeramik culture. --- Hoards, Prehistoric --- Hoards, Prehistoric. --- Ritual --- Ritual. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Antiquities --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- History.

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The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which

Bandkeramik culture. --- Neolithic period --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Band ceramic culture --- Ceramika wstegowa culture --- Ceramique lineaire culture --- Danubian I culture --- Early Danubian culture --- Incised Ware Group --- LBK (Neolithic culture) --- Linear Band Pottery culture --- Linear Band Ware culture --- Linear Ceramics culture --- Linear Pottery culture --- Linear Ware culture --- Linearbandkeramik culture --- Rubané culture --- Volutova keramika culture --- Europe, Central --- Antiquities. --- Neolithic peoples --- Bandkeramik culture --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Neolithic period - Europe, Central --- Prehistoric peoples - Europe, Central --- Europe, Central - Antiquities

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More than 7000 years ago, groups of early farmers (the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK) spread over vast areas of Europe. Their cultural characteristics comprised common choices and styles of execution, with a central meaning and functionality attached to 'doing things a certain way', over an enormous geographical area. However, recent evidence suggests that the reality was much more varied and diverse. The central question of this book is the extent to which notions of 'uniformity' and 'diversity' have caused a wider shift in archaeological perspective.Using the LBK case study as a starting point,

Neolithic period --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Bandkeramik culture --- Band ceramic culture --- Ceramika wstegowa culture --- Ceramique lineaire culture --- Danubian I culture --- Early Danubian culture --- Incised Ware Group --- LBK (Neolithic culture) --- Linear Band Pottery culture --- Linear Band Ware culture --- Linear Ceramics culture --- Linear Pottery culture --- Linear Ware culture --- Linearbandkeramik culture --- Rubané culture --- Volutova keramika culture --- Europe --- Antiquities.