Migrations or local interactions? Spheres of interaction in third-millennium BC Central Europe

0533651 - BÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Kolář, Jan
Migrations or local interactions? Spheres of interaction in third-millennium BC Central Europe.
Antiquity. Roč. 94, č. 377 (2020), s. 1168-1185. ISSN 0003-598X. E-ISSN 1745-1744
R&D Projects: GA ČR GJ19-20970Y
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : prehistoric Europe * migrations * trans-locality
OECD category: Archaeology
Impact factor: 1.953, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.151

Increasing scholarly interest in past human mobility has provoked intense debate between archaeologists and archaeogeneticists. Explanations advanced by the latter have been criticised for framing explanations in terms of large-scale migrations, lacking underpinning social theory or interest in human behaviour, conversely, archaeologists have been criticised for supplying samples but no intellectual input. This article uses examples of ceramics and chipped stone tools to illustrate local interactions within regional Eneolithic Corded Ware culture in Moravia, demonstrating that what may appear as a homogeneous archaeological culture spread by mass migration can be understood as a more complex series of overlapping, local cultural changes.
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