TRB Culture: The First Farmers of the North European Plain"This is the first major synthesis of the TRB (Trichterrandbecher - funnel-necked beaker) culture, one of the most extensive cultural patterns in the European prehistory of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The TRB culture covers a vast geographical area stretching from South East Poland to the Netherlands, and from Southern Scandinavia to Bohemia and Moravia. Consequently, it presents enormous difficulties to scholars trying to build an overall picture of the culture and its significance: difficulties of language, of the scale of the subject and of the amount of material to be assimilated and assessed. In this book, Magdalena Midgley manages the impressive task of bringing together evidence from the whole North European Plain, including new material published in German, Danish, Dutch, Polish and Russian. It gives the student and the professional archaeologist an up-to-date guide to the basic subject matter from an international perspective, as well as offering an evaluation of the views of other scholars whose findings are not available in English."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
Geographical background I | 1 |
The late huntergatherers of the North European Plain | 7 |
the historical background | 31 |
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activities appears argued assemblages associated axes barrows basis beakers bones bowls burial cent central ceramic chambers Chapter chronological clear clearly communities complex contained context continue copper cord Corded Ware culture Danish dates decoration Denmark deposits discussion distribution dolmens earlier early early TRB Eastern Ebbesen economy elements especially evidence example farming Figure finds flint forms further German graves horizon houses ibid identified important impressions indicate individual interpretation involved islands Jutland known landscape late later less Madsen material Mecklenburg megalithic monuments Moreover motifs nature Neolithic North European Plain northern noted offer particular passage graves pattern period phase pits placed possible pottery present range recent region relatively remains represent reveal ritual settlement shows significance similar social Source southern stage style suggest TRB culture TRB group various vertical vessels Western