Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 19.07.2021
End date : 21.07.2021
Extension date: 31.12.2021
International conference "The eve of
destruction - Local groups and global networks during the late 4th and
early 3rd mil BC in Central Europe and beyond", 19-21.7.2021.
Recently,
paleogenetic research results have shifted the focus of international
archaeological archaeological discussion on possible "massive
migrations" in the 3rd mill BC. Chr. (Allentoft et al. 2015; Haack et
al. 2015; Furholt 2018).
In the center of interest are the
so-called "Jamnaja Culture" and the "Corded Ware Culture," whose
"bearers" are considered as possible immigrants from the Eastern
European region. The large-scale spreading of the mentioned cultures is
thus from the genetic side gladly by a rapid and massive immigration
movement. On the other side there are models, mostly argued
archaeologically, which emphasize regional differences. Even these
cannot decide to what this regionality is due: to a continuity of the
local population, which is continuity of the local population, which
carries the Corded Ware, or rather to a progressive diversification of
the new immigrants. This uncertainty is due to the fact that the
archaeological phenomena just before the appearance of the Corded Ware
are only roughly known in many European regions are only roughly known.
The
inclusion of the "eve" of the Corded Ware is thus indispensable when it
comes to regional and supra-regional models of this transformation
process with each other. Archaeology must take a key position here, also
because in many regions there are no burials for the collection of
genetic samples are available.
The workshop aims to give new impulses by focusing on current research in Central Europe and beyond in the period between 3300 and 2700 BC. For this phase, archaeological research has identified numerous, rather small-scale distributed "such as the "Wartberg Culture" or the "Goldberg III Group", but also large-scale phenomena such as the large-scale phenomena such as the "Globular Amphora Culture". On the basis of diverse elements of the archaeological tradition, problems of demarcation between different "cultural groups" or their general legitimation are discussed again and again. Often it is whether there are more connecting or more separating elements. This leads directly question whether this horizon can already be understood as a phase of transformation, which will bring changes of continental dimensions in the time of the Beaker cultures, or if these changes or even made them possible in the first place.
The following questions, among others, will be debated:
Based
on current research results, the conference wants to make a first
contribution to a holistic understanding of the transformation processes
in the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC.
International conference "The eve of destruction - Local groups and global networks during the late 4th and early 3rd mil BC in Central Europe and beyond", 19-21.7.2021.
Recently, paleogenetic research results have shifted the focus of international archaeological archaeological discussion on possible "massive migrations" in the 3rd mill BC. Chr. (Allentoft et al. 2015; Haack et al. 2015; Furholt 2018).
In the center of interest are the so-called "Jamnaja Culture" and the "Corded Ware Culture," whose "bearers" are considered as possible immigrants from the Eastern European region. The large-scale spreading of the mentioned cultures is thus from the genetic side gladly by a rapid and massive immigration movement. On the other side there are models, mostly argued archaeologically, which emphasize regional differences. Even these cannot decide to what this regionality is due: to a continuity of the local population, which is continuity of the local population, which carries the Corded Ware, or rather to a progressive diversification of the new immigrants. This uncertainty is due to the fact that the archaeological phenomena just before the appearance of the Corded Ware are only roughly known in many European regions are only roughly known.
The inclusion of the "eve" of the Corded Ware is thus indispensable when it comes to regional and supra-regional models of this transformation process with each other. Archaeology must take a key position here, also because in many regions there are no burials for the collection of genetic samples are available.
The workshop aims to give new impulses by focusing on current research in Central Europe and beyond in the period between 3300 and 2700 BC. For this phase, archaeological research has identified numerous, rather small-scale distributed "such as the "Wartberg Culture" or the "Goldberg III Group", but also large-scale phenomena such as the large-scale phenomena such as the "Globular Amphora Culture". On the basis of diverse elements of the archaeological tradition, problems of demarcation between different "cultural groups" or their general legitimation are discussed again and again. Often it is whether there are more connecting or more separating elements. This leads directly question whether this horizon can already be understood as a phase of transformation, which will bring changes of continental dimensions in the time of the Beaker cultures, or if these changes or even made them possible in the first place.
The following questions, among others, will be debated:
Based on current research results, the conference wants to make a first contribution to a holistic understanding of the transformation processes in the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC.