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Abandonment of agglomerations in late Iron Age in Central Europe - complex society facing complex problems
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SYSNO ASEP 0395616 Document Type A - Abstract R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV R&D Document Type Není vybrán druh dokumentu Title Abandonment of agglomerations in late Iron Age in Central Europe - complex society facing complex problems Author(s) Danielisová, Alžběta (ARU-G) RID, SAI, ORCID
Cimler, R. (CZ)
Olševičová, K. (CZ)Number of authors 3 Source Title -. -, 2013 Number of pages 1 s. Publication form Online - E Action Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists /19./ Event date 04.09.2013-08.09.2013 VEvent location Plzeň Country CZ - Czech Republic Event type EUR Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords collapse ; oppida ; late Iron Age Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology R&D Projects GAP405/12/0926 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support ARU-G - RVO:67985912 Annotation In the models of social complexity including and interconnecting innovation, specialisation, political structure, market integration, but also migration, settlement pattern changes and abandonment, population growth plays a crucial role. Population pressure and over-exploitation of resources are very important concepts from which wide social phenomena have been explained. The consequences of increasing social complexity usually involve the transition from universal subsistence strategies to (institutionally introduced?) intensive exploitation of resources aiming for surplus production, which leads progressively towards increasing dependency outside the community. As the population approaches the limit, surplus production gradually declines. The situation develops into the crisis and settlements must be abandoned or the strategy must be transformed. This contribution focuses on the period of Iron Age in Central Europe when large agglomerations came into picture. When examining their economy an issue of the resource crisis induced by population pressure inevitably appears. The archaeological evidence of rapidly increasing and then again decreasing occupation during the last two centuries BC could make "crossing the limit" one of the potential explanations of the end of the Iron Age agglomerations in Central Europe. However, the question addressed in this paper is whether this problem was not in fact much more complex. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Prague) Contact Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412 Year of Publishing 2014
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