Beyond the Neolithic transition: - the ‘de-Neolithisation’ of South Scandinavia

Rune Iversen

Beyond the Neolithic transition: - the ‘de-Neolithisation’ of South Scandinavia

SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History

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Abstract

In South Scandinavia, the Funnel Beaker culture is synonymous with the emergence of Neolithic societies (c 4000 BC), the construction of megalithic monuments and agricultural lifestyle. After c 1300 years of existence the Funnel Beaker culture ceased and a culturally blurred period began.
In the south-western parts of the Jutland Peninsula, the Single Grave culture emerged (c 2850 BC) expressing a high degree of cultural uniformity. In Eastern Denmark this uniformity was absent and instead the material culture shows a mixture of late Funnel Beaker, Pitted Ware and Single Grave culture elements. The question is whether the end of the Funnel Beaker culture in Eastern Denmark marks a period of decline and fragmentation or one of continuity and incorporation of new cultural elements and subsistence strategies. In particular the revival of hunter-fisher-gatherer strategies applied by the Pitted Ware culture represents a different economic focus than that held by the Funnel Beaker culture. The renewed focus on hunter-fisher-gatherer strategies, 1000 years after the introduction of agriculture, challenges the prevalent understanding of the dynamics behind the Neolithisation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NW Europe in Transition : The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
Editors	Mats Larsson, Jolene Debert
Number of pages	7
Volume	2475
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Archaeopress
Publication date	2013
Pages	21-27
Chapter	3
ISBN (Print)	978 1 4073 1087 9
Publication status	Published - 2013

Series	B A R. International Series
ISSN	0143-3067

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
‘de-Neolithisation’
Neolithic lifestyle
mobile strategies
megalithic tombs
TRB
Single Grave culture
Pitted Ware culture
South Scandinavia
third millennium BC

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Beyond the Neolithic transition : - the ‘de-Neolithisation’ of South Scandinavia. / Iversen, Rune.

NW Europe in Transition: The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden. ed. / Mats Larsson; Jolene Debert. Vol. 2475 Oxford : Archaeopress, 2013. p. 21-27 (B A R. International Series).

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