Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic
Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic
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巴尔干新石器时代的放牧、定居和年代学
DOI:
10.1179/1461957112y.0000000003
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
D. Orton
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作者:
D. Orton
The Neolithic in the central Balkans saw dramatic changes in settlement forms, architecture, and material culture, with substantial, often long-lived settlements that can reasonably be called villages emerging in the later part of the period. This paper examines the role of herding practices in the development of these large, more-or-less settled communities. Radiocarbon results (including twenty-seven new AMS dates from Gomolava, Opovo, and Petnica) are used to place the available zooarchaeological data into a chronological framework, allowing comparison of inter- and intra-site changes across the region. The data point to the development of large-scale cattle herding in the later Neolithic, the implications of which for mobility and community cohesion are discussed. This trend is seen clearly over time at certain sites but, like the settlement evidence, is neither universal nor synchronous across the region, emphasizing that change occurred, and should be understood, on the level of individual communities.