Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vrable, Southwest Slovakia
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vrable, Southwest Slovakia
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DOI：
10.1017/s0959774320000049
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Mueller, Johannes
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作者：
Furholt, Martin;Mueller-Scheessel, Nils;Mueller, Johannes
我们在斯洛伐克西南部Vrable的大型LBK定居点进行的研究揭示了在一个聚集的早期农业社区中展开的社会整合和对抗的动态。在公元前5250年至公元前4950年的寿命期间，它不断增长，直到公元前5050年左右，它被大约70个同时期的长屋所居住。我们发现vable由明显自治的农场单位组成，这些单位由村庄范围的社会机构（包括共享和社区）维系在一起。然而，从一开始，个别农场与集体村庄和社区利益之间的矛盾就存在并上升了。在村庄存在的最后阶段，大约50750亿英镑的精心设计的围栏围绕着三个社区中的一个建造，积极地阻止了与其他社区的联系。沿着这个围栏，人类的尸体被放置，显示了一种社会分类，我们将其解释为与社会不平等有关。我们认为，在早期农业社会的条件下，这种不断加剧的冲突和不断出现的社会不平等是不可持续的，并导致了村庄在公元前4950年被遗弃。
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vrable, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to 4950bc, it constantly grew until around 5050bcit was inhabited by about 70 contemporaneous longhouses. We found that Vrable consisted of markedly autonomous farmstead units that were held together by village-wide social institutions including sharing and communality. Nevertheless, from the beginning, a contradiction between particular farmstead and collective village and neighbourhood interests existed and rose. Towards the end of the village's existence, around 5075bcan elaborate enclosure was constructed around one of the three neigbourhoods, actively blocking contact with the others. Along this enclosure, human bodies were deposited, showing a social categorization that we interpret as relating to social inequality. This rising level of conflict and emerging social inequality was, we argue, not sustainable under the conditions of early farming societies and led to the village's abandonment at 4950bc.