In theAnthropologiejournal in 2008 (46, 2–3), Marek Zvelebil and an international team of experts presented the results from theVedrovice bioarchaeology project, which detailed the life-histories of ...individuals buried at the early LBK cemetery. In combining a range of different bioarchaeological methodologies, this project was able to show that the community buried at Vedrovice was formed of a diverse and heterogenous population, leading lives influenced to different degrees by the transition to farming. Drawing on a similar approach – that of using bioarchaeological evidence fully integrated in its archaeological context – a project calledThe first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifewayswas begun in 2008 and ran for four years. Sampling sites across the southern distribution of the LBK for isotopic analysis (carbon, nitrogen, and strontium isotopes primarily) and including osteological study, this project concentrated on issues of regional and site-based diversity in diet, mobility and burial. In this paper, we present a comparison of the Moravian and western Slovakian results from this project, including new data from the cemetery and settlement burials at Vedrovice, as well as from the Nitra cemetery and the settlements of Těšetice-Kyjovice and Brno-Starý Lískovec/Nový Lískovec. Like Zvelebilet al. (2008), we find communities formed of heterogenous identities, though we suggest that such diversity was also found alongside evidence for shared practice at different scales of human life.
Two excavations carried out in 2001 and 2002 by Tom Rogers and Declan Moore of Moore Group provide a window into institutional burial practice in nineteenth-century Ireland. In Manorhamilton, Co. ...Leitrim, 73 individuals were excavated from the former workhouse cemetery, and at St Brigid's Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, twelve individuals were removed from part of the grounds of the former Connaught Asylum. Although no specific dates of burial could be ascertained, historical records and some small finds suggest that the excavated graves in both cases were from the mid- to late nineteenth century. Analysis of these remains provides an interesting opportunity to compare historical accounts with archaeological and osteological data.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Skeletons are considered to be unequivocal symbols of death, but the scientific analysis of human skeletal remains from ...archaeological excavations offers unique and extremely valuable insights into the lives of past populations. Excavations in the townland of Johnstown, Co. Meath, were carried out between April and October 2002 by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd on behalf of Westmeath County Council in advance of construction of the M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock road scheme1 (Illus. 1 and 2). The excavations uncovered an extensive burial ground that had been in virtually uninterrupted use for a period of almost 1,500 years (Clarke 2002). The osteological analysis of over 400 skeletons from Johnstown revealed evidence for hardship, accidents,- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Alsace Penny Bickle; Rose-Marie Arbogast; R. Alexander Bentley ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe,
07/2013
Book Chapter
In the last of our regional considerations of the isotope results, we reach the westernmost extent of the Lifeways project, crossing the Rhine into France and the region of Alsace (Fig. 8.1). The ...Alsatian landscape is framed by the upper course of the Rhine, whose valley is some 40 km at its widest (Lefranc 2007a, 11), and bounded by the Vosges mountains to the west, the Alps to the south, the Black Forest to the east, and to the north, the Rhine valley continues into Germany. The variety of different geologies in this region is very similar to that seen
Ohne Zweifel gehörten Gewalt und Konflikte zum neolithischen Alltag. Verletzungsspuren an menschlichen Skeletten belegen, dass auch Frauen und Kinder nicht von Gewaltakten verschont blieben. Waren ...diese Toten einfach nur wehrlose Opfer oder gibt es Indizien dafür, dass Kampfhandlungen nicht ausschließlich von erwachsenen Männern ausgeführt wurden? Eine anthropologische Studie zu gewaltsamen Schädelverletzungen gewährt Einblicke in Verhaltensmuster und Tathergänge im neolithischen Nordwesteuropa.
Moravia and western Slovakia Alasdair Whittle; R. Alexander Bentley; Penny Bickle ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe,
07/2013
Book Chapter
The Neolithic archaeologies of Moravia and Slovakia, previously provinces first in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and then within Czechoslovakia, and now half of an independent state and a whole state ...themselves, have often been treated separately. This chapter takes them together, with the sites sampled by this project standing as selected and, we hope, preliminary case studies of the numerous LBK communities which inhabited the river valleys and basins running south into the middle Danube. That geography of Danube tributaries may perhaps serve better to define this region of LBK settlement than modern and historical state boundaries (Fig. 4.1). From west
Seeking diversity Julie Hamilton; R. Alexander Bentley; Penny Bickle ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe,
07/2013
Book Chapter
The analytical techniques on offer to the archaeologist today are accelerating at an astonishing and exciting rate, providing kinds of detailed insights into past lifeways which could scarcely have ...been imagined just a few decades ago. Aside from radiocarbon dating, isotopic studies have been used in archaeology as far back as the mid-1960s, beginning with lead isotopes in metal and its by-products (Pollard 2011, 631). However, this form of analysis has only really become established in archaeology over the last decade and a half, reinvigorating the approach to questions of social organisation and mobility in past societies (Priceet al.
The supra-regional perspective Robert Hedges; R. Alexander Bentley; Penny Bickle ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe,
07/2013
Book Chapter
The evidence described in previous chapters covers a representative transect from the southern distribution of the LBK, stretching over 1200 km from the middle Danube in Hungary to the upper Rhine ...valley in Alsace, France (Fig. 9.1). In this chapter we move from considering the data on the local and regional scale to look for general spatial trends – the supra-regional approach – and to consider their possible underlying causes. Furthermore, where such trends are prominent, they provide the context in which the significance of variation between sites can be addressed. Of the different kinds of evidence collected here, it is the
Austria Penny Bickle; R. Alexander Bentley; Christoph Blesl ...
The First Farmers of Central Europe,
07/2013
Book Chapter
In this chapter we move southwards from Moravia and Slovakia into Austria, rejoining the course of the Danube in the lowland areas of northern Austria. Here LBK settlements are found situated on ...loess soils around secondary water courses on either side of the Danube, avoiding the higher ground of the Alps to the south and most likely set in amongst patches of deciduous woodland (Kreuzet al. 2005; Sommerer 2005). Along the northern Austrian border, the crystalline (granite and gneiss) southern parts of the Bohemian Massif reach into Lower Austria from the north-west (Neugebauer 1993, 9; Havlíčeket al. 1998,
