Breaking with tradition : cultural influences for the decline of the Circum-Alpine region lake-dwellings / Benjamin Jennings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alps--History--Congresses.

Alps.

Alps, Italian (Italy)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Alps, Italian (Italy).

Alps--Antiquities--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Sidestone Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over 150 years of research in the Circum-Alpine region have produced a vast amount of data on the lakeshore and wetland settlements found throughout the area. Particularly in the northern region, dendrochronological studies have provided highly accurate sequences of occupation, which have correlated, in turn, to palaeoclimatic reconstructions in the area. The result has been the general conclusion that the lake-dwelling tradition was governed by climatic factors, with communities abandoning the lakeshore during periods of inclement conditions, and returning when the climate was more favourable

Contents:

List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; 1.1 The Circum-Alpine region; 1.1.1 Archaeology; 1.1.1.1 Lake-dwelling hiatus; 1.1.1.2 The Late Bronze - Early Iron Age abandonment; 1.2 Chronologies and cultures; 1.3 Data sources; 1.4 The issue of disappearance; Theoretical Development; 2.1 Relational theory; 2.2 The biography of objects; 2.3 Cultural memory; 2.4 Theories of trade and exchange; 2.4.1 Cultural change; 2.5 Application of the theoretical framework; 2.5.1 The problems of ethnographic analogy; Prehistoric European Trade Routes; 3.1 European long-distance trade routes

3.2 The lake-dwelling connectionExchange and Biographies of Objects in the Northern Circum-Alpine Region; 4.1 Biographies of objects; 4.1.1 Glass and amber jewellery beads; 4.1.2 Ring jewellery; 4.1.3 Swords and spears; 4.1.4 Knives and razors; 4.1.5 Late Bronze Age to Iron Age biographical changes; 4.2 Material indications of cultural change?; 4.2.1 Keys north of the Alps; 4.2.2 Weights; Immovable Material Culture; 5.1 What is a lake-dwelling?; 5.1.1 Why were lake-dwellings occupied?; 5.2 Northern Circum-Alpine region lake-dwellings; 5.2.1 Ürschhausen-Horn; 5.2.2 Greifensee-Böschen

5.2.3 Wasserburg-Buchau5.2.4 Oggelshausen-Bruckgraben; 5.3 Settlement biographies; 5.3.1 Lake-settlement areas of the northern Circum-Alpine region; 5.3.1.1 Lake Feder; 5.3.1.2 Zurich Bay; 5.3.1.3 Lake Greifen and Lake Pfäffikon; 5.3.1.4 Lake Chalain; 5.3.1.5 Lake Constance; 5.3.2 Inland settlements of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in the northern Circum-Alpine region; 5.3.3 Biographies of Lake-Settlements; 5.4 Settlement visibility; Religion, Rituals, and Symbolism; 6.1 Burial Practices; 6.2 Artefact deposition practices; 6.2.1 Hoards; 6.2.2 Single item depositions

6.2.3 Purposes of object deposition6.3 'Ritual' material culture; 6.3.1 Firedogs or 'moon idols'?; 6.3.2 Drinking vessels; 6.3.3 Symbolism; 6.4 Comprehending 'ritual' aspects in the northern Circum-Alpine lake-dwelling region; Trade as Influence for Cultural Change in the Northern Circum-Alpine Region?; 7.1 Narratives of social change in lake-dwelling communities; Final Reflections: Cultural vs. Environmental Change in the Lake-Dwelling Abandonment?; 8.1 Cultural influence in the Late Bronze Age lake-dwelling abandonment?; 8.2 Future research directions; Appendix 1

List of sites for Figure 5.11Appendix 2; List of sites for Figure 5.12; Appendix 3; List of sites for Figure 6.1; Bibliography; Blank Page; Blank Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 17, 2014).

ISBN:

90-8890-276-3

OCLC:

897070525