Dr.. Dr. Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

https://www.sfb1266.uni-kiel.de/de/mitglieder/copy_of_mueller

Publication:

Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Zuzana Hukeľová, John Meadows, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller & Martin Furholt. 2021. “New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (379): 65–84.

The recent discovery of several late Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Europe, including Vráble

in south-west Slovakia, has revealed evidence for increasing diversity in Neolithic mortuary practices,

which may reflect inter-community war and sociopolitical crisis at the end of the LBK. Here, the

authors combine osteological and radiocarbon analyses of inhumations from Vráble. Rather than a

straightforward sign of inter-community conflict and war, this development reflects a culmination of

internal conflict and a diversification in the ritual treatment of human bodies. The emerging variability

in LBK methods of manipulating and depositing dead bodies can be interpreted as an experimental

approach in how to negotiate social conflicts and community boundaries.

Dr. Ana Grabundžija, Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana-Grabundzija

Publication:

Ana Grabundžija, Helmut Schlichtherle, Urs Leuzinger, Wolfram Schier & Sabine Karg. 2021. “The interaction of distant technologies: bridging Central Europe using a techno-typological comparison of spindle whorls” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (381): 627–647.

The study of prehistoric textile production requires the excavation of sites with exceptional organic preservation.

Here, the authors focus on thread production using evidence from two fourth-millennium

BC pre-Alpine wetland sites: Arbon-Bleiche 3 in Switzerland and Bad Buchau-Torwiesen II in southern

Germany. A comparison of the spindle whorls from these two settlements with a contemporaneous

East-Central European dataset suggests that multiple culture-historical groups with distinct technological

signatures inhabited Neolithic Central Europe. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of conical spindle

whorls within the pre-Alpine settlements suggests the immigration of both people and technology

from the east, thereby illuminating the wider themes of mobility and innovation in prehistoric Europe.

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Dr.. Roberto Risch, Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

https://www.uab.cat/web/qui-som/roberto-risch/english-1345812342658.html

http://www.la-bastida.com/inicio/index.html

Publications:

Vicente Lull, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada , Roberto Risch, Bárbara Bonora, Eva Celdrán-Beltrán, Maria Inés Fregeiro, Claudia Molero, Adrià Moreno, Camila Oliart, Carlos Velasco-Felipe , Lourdes Andúgar, Wolfgang Haak , Vanessa Villalba-Mouco & Rafael Micó. 2021. “Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia”. Antiquity 2021 Vol. 95 (380): 329–348.

The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the

political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods

emphasise the technological, economic and social dimensions of this unique culture. The assemblage

includes politically and ideologically emblematic objects, among which a silver diadem stands out.

Of equally exceptional character is the building under which the grave was found—possibly one of

the first Bronze Age palaces identified in Western Europe. The architecture and artefacts from La Almoloya

provide new insight into emblematic individuals and the exercise of power in societies of marked

economic asymmetry.

Roberto Risch, Harald Meller, Selina Delgado-Raack, and Torsten Schunke. 2.21. “The Bornhöck Burial Mound and the Political Economy of an Únˇetice Ruler”, in S. Gimatzidis and R. Jung (eds.), The Critique of Archaeological Economy, Frontiers in Economic History, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72539-6_6.

Beyond the teleological meaning that the different state theories have attached to this historical category, most of them probably coincide in relating the appearance of the state to the existence of stratified or class societies, in which individuals and social groups can clearly be distinguished in terms of their asymmetric access to

wealth and power.2 These privileges are warranted and legitimised in space and time through different mechanisms and institutions. Legally, this requires the imposition of some form of permanent, usually hereditary, property rights and the establishment of territorial limits, within which these privileges are imposed. The dynastic rule is

another institution by which economic and political privileges are often fixed in time. Effectively, the enforcement of law and domination demands the existence of specific mechanisms of coercion and the concentration of means of violence in

the hands of a dominant class. Apart from the violent imposition of privileges and rights, states always develop their own mechanism of psychological coercion, for example through rituals and imagery of violence, in order to give rise to individual fear and obedience, which form the subjective fabric of domination and hegemony. In general, the ideological and ceremonial paraphernalia of the state are essential to its legitimation.

Prof. Jan Driessen, UC Louvain.

https://uclouvain.be/fr/repertoires/jan.driessen

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Driessen-2/5

https://sarpedon.be/

Publications:

Jan Driessen. 2021. "Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi". Antiquity 2021 Vol. 95 (381): 686–704.

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Fibiger, L. 2018. The past as a foreign country: Bioarchaeologial perspectives on Pinker's "Prehistoric Anarchy". Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 44(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2018.440103

Dyer, M. & Fibiger, L. 2017. Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe: The first experiments using a skin-skull-brain model and the Thames Beater. Antiquity 91 (360), 1515-1528. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.189

Downing, M. & Fibiger, L. 2017. An experimental investigation of sharp force skeletal trauma with replica Bronze Age weapons. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 546-554. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.034

Angela Boyle. 2020. COWBOYS AND INDIANS?A BIOCULTURAL STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT INSOUTH-EAST SCOTLAND cAD 400 TO cAD 800. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

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