Keep on walk: the role of migration in Linearbandkeramik life

Migration played a central role throughout the LBK culture. After summarising the motivations for migration in the earliest LBK, the article outlines how some of these factors remained relevant in later phases. Beyond continued westand eastward expansion, at regional and site levels migration to bet...

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Published inDocumenta praehistorica Vol. 43; pp. 235 - 252
Main Author Hofmann, Daniela
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ljubljana University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts 30.12.2016
University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
Subjects
aDNA
Cultural anthropology
ethnogenesis
Linearbandkeramik (LBK)
Migration
Neolithic
social status
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Summary:Migration played a central role throughout the LBK culture. After summarising the motivations for migration in the earliest LBK, the article outlines how some of these factors remained relevant in later phases. Beyond continued westand eastward expansion, at regional and site levels migration to better one’s social position provided an alternative to patrilineal land inheritance. The main change between the earliest and later phases is the role of material culture after migration events. Initially a means of creating long-distance connections, it later stressed difference from other groups. This process of ethnogenesis is invisible genetically. Overall, migration emerges as a salient behaviour even in ‘sedentary’ Neolithic societies.
ISSN:1408-967X
1854-2492
DOI:10.4312/dp.43.11