Inheritance, Social Networks, Adaptation
Bronze and Early Iron Age Societies North of the Western Carpathians
Marcin Przybyła, Karol Dzięgielewski (eds)
- Pages: 820 p.
- Size:210 x 297 mm
- Illustrations:124 b/w, 277 col., 46 tables b/w., 2 tables col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
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This comparative work examines the factors of cultural change among Bronze Age and Early Iron Age societies to the north of the Western Carpathians.
The editors and authors of the volume form a team associated mainly with the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
How did societies change between the Early Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age? And what was the impetus that led to these changes — social contacts and innovation, intergenerational contacts, or perhaps simply adaptation? Taking these questions as its starting point, this richly detailed volume explores four different regions of southern Poland to compare and contrast the mechanisms that drove socio-cultural change in the region between the second and the first half of the first millennium BC. Drawing on standardized sets of archaeological data, the chapters gathered here examine the interplay of different factors influencing cultural change across five key parameters: environment; settlement patterns; settlement organization; economy; and material culture. The result is a beautifully illustrated volume that offers important insights into Central and Eastern European prehistory, made accessible for an English-speaking audience.
Introduction, Marcin S. Przybyła, Karol Dzięgielewski
Part 1. Analysis of Source Data
1.1. Geographical Location of the Study Region and Test Areas, Karol Dzięgielewski, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg
1.2. Timeline
1.2.1. Bronze and Early Iron Ages Around the Western Carpathians: Civilizational Transformations in Central Europe in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC, Jan Chochorowski, Karol Dzięgielewski, Marcin S. Przybyła
1.2.2. Periodisation of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages on the Upper Vistula River, Karol Dzięgielewski
1.2.3. Periodisation of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Dunajec Valley, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Marcin S. Przybyła
1.3. Transformations of Natural Environment
1.3.1. Environmental Changes in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Loess Areas of the Upper Vistula Basin (Test Area 1), Michał Wasilewski, Anna Gawlik
1.3.2. Environmental Changes in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Upper Vistula Valley near Kraków (Test Area 2), Karol Dzięgielewski, Dorota Nalepka, Maria Lityńska-Zając
1.3.3. Environmental Changes in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Middle Dunajec Basin (Test Area 3), Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Katarzyna Korzeń, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Maria Lityńska-Zając
1.3.4. Environmental Changes in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), Marcin S. Przybyła, Katarzyna Korzeń, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo
1.4. Settlement Network
1.4.1. Methodology of Fuzzy Logic Mapping, Geostatistical Analyses and Cartographical issues, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Klaus Cappenberg
1.4.2. Settlement Network in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Loess Areas of the Upper Vistula Basin (Test Area 1), Anna Gawlik
1.4.3. Settlement Network in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Upper Vistula Valley near Kraków (Test Area 2), Michał Mazur, Karol Dzięgielewski
1.4.4. Settlement Network in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Middle Dunajec Basin (Test Area 3), Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg
1.4.5. Settlement Network in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), Marcin S. Przybyła, Joanna A. Markiewicz
1.5. Settlement Structure and Organisation
1.5.1. Organisation of Intra-settlement Space in Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements from the Upper Vistula Basin (Test Areas 1 and 2), Karol Dzięgielewski, Anna Gawlik, Michał Mazur
1.5.2. Organisation of Intra-settlement Space in Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements from the Middle Dunajec Basin (Test Area 3), Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Tobias L. Kienlin
1.5.3. Organisation of Intra-settlement Space in Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlements from the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), Marcin S. Przybyła
1.6. Subsistence Economy
1.6.1. Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Farming and Animal Husbandry in the Loess Areas of the Upper Vistula Basin (Test Area 1), Krystyna Wasylikowa, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Dalia Pokutta, Anna Gawlik
1.6.2. Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Farming and Animal Husbandry in the Upper Vistula Valley near Kraków (Test Area 2), Karol Dzięgielewski, Maria Lityńska-Zając, Ulana Gocman, Michał Mazur
1.6.3. Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Farming in the Middle Dunajec Basin (Test Area 3), Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Maria Lityńska-Zając, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Katarzyna Cywa
1.6.4. Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Farming and Animal Husbandry in the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), Marcin S. Przybyła, Ulana Gocman, Aldona Mueller-Bieniek
1.7. Pottery Manufacture
1.7.1. Notes on the Method of Classification of Ornaments and Morphological Features of Ceramic Vessels, Marcin S. Przybyła, Karol Dzięgielewski, Anna Gawlik, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Michał Mazur
1.7.2. Continuation and Change in Pottery Manufacture in the Upper Vistula Basin (Test Areas 1 and 2), Karol Dzięgielewski, Michał Mazur
1.7.3. Continuation and Change in Pottery Manufacture in the Middle Dunajec Basin (Test Area 3), Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg
1.7.4. Continuation and Change in Pottery Manufacture in the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), Marcin S. Przybyła
Part 2. Comparative Analyses
2.1. Interconnectivity: Geographic and Social Space, Marcin S. Przybyła, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Klaus Cappenberg, Joanna A. Markiewicz, Karol Dzięgielewski
2.2. Economy: Trends of Diachronic Changes and Local Specificity, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg, Marcin S. Przybyła, Karol Dzięgielewski, Klaus Cappenberg
2.3. Thoughts on Wealth and Social Differentiation, Consumption of Bronze, and Craft Specialisation, Karol Dzięgielewski, Marcin S. Przybyła, Marta Korczyńska-Cappenberg
Part 3. Concluding Remarks
3.1. From Pots and Farmsteads to Demography: Exploring the Interplay of Cultural Transmission Patterns, Marcin S. Przybyła, Karol Dzięgielewski
Part 4. Specialist Analyses
4.1. Micromorphology and Physico-chemical Properties of Soils and Sediments from Maszkowice and Janowice Sites, Magdalena Makiel, Wojciech Szymański, Mateusz Stolarczyk
4.2. Analysis of Animal Bone Remains from Trench 9 on Site 6 at Janowice (AZP 106-65/61), Pleśna Commune, Ulana Gocman
References
Appendices: Lists of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Sites Included in the Project
List of Radiocarbon Dates used in the Chronometric Analysis for the Upper Vistula Area (Chapter 1.2.2)