Differentiation of Agriculture und Environment as Basis of Early Monumentality in the Northern German Neolithic

农业和景观是理解新石器时代漏斗烧杯文化现象和相关纪念性的核心重要性。在“早期纪念性和社会分化”优先方案的框架内，考古植物学和古环境分析的目的是评价自然资源的供应和利用，并确定农业经济的原则。这些结论将与早期和年轻考古时期的结果进行比较，也将与不同景观中的当代群体进行比较。古生态学方法（孢粉学、沉积物分析、温度年代学、野生和栽培植物宏观遗迹分析）应用于不同时空分辨率（现场和非现场研究）的经济和环境条件重建。作为一个中心项目，调查将处理来自不同地区的样本和使用相同方法的所有挖掘。通过这种策略，对单个坟墓或定居点的微观尺度分析将导致对一个地区的中尺度汇编和对德国北部漏斗杯社会地区的宏观尺度解释。除了新的资料外，现有的数据也将编入一个中央数据库。在这种方法的框架内，设想对花粉记录和宏观遗骸样品进行新的定年和重新采样。

Agriculture and landscape are of central importance for understanding the phenomenon of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture and the associated monumentality. In the frame of the priority programme "Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation" the archaeobotanical and palaeo-environmental analyses aim for evaluating the supply and use of natural resources, and to identify principles of agrarian economy. The conclusions will be compared to results of earlier and younger archaeological periods but also to contemporary groups in differing landscapes. Palaeo-ecological methods (palynology, sediment analyses, tephrochronology, analyses of macro-remains of wild and cultivated plants) are applied to reconstruct economic and environmental conditions in different temporal and spatial resolution (on-site and off-site studies). As a central project, the investigations will deal with sampies from different areas and excavations applying the same methods all over. By this strategy the micro-scale analyses of a single grave or settlement will result in a meso-scale compilation for a region and in a macro-scale interpretation for the area of the Northern German Funnelbeaker societies. Beside new information also already available data will be compiled in a central database. In the frame of this approach new dating and re-sampling of pollen records and of macro-remain sam pies is envisaged.