New theoretical discourses in the discussion of the neolithisation process in South Scandinavia during the late 5th and early 4th millennium BC - an identification of learning processes, communities of practice and migrations

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    Abstract

    In this paper, it is argued that agriculture is a very complex technology, which takes a long time to learn, thus making it very difficult for agrarian practises to spread as ideas. Instead, based on a detailed survey of primary agrarian evidence (direct 14C dates of cereals and domesticated animals) and secondary evidence of material culture (polished axes and pottery), it is claimed that the expansions of agrarian practises in South Scandinavia are associated with the migration of
    farmers who were related to the Michelsberg Culture. These incoming farmers had the appropriate skills and the ability to teach the indigenous hunter-gatherer populations about agriculture by establishing communities of practice, a fact which supports the theory of integrationism. The engagement in these communities of practise changed the identity and material culture of the immigrating farmers, as well as the indigenous hunter-gatherers, thus creating new agrarian societies in South Scandinavia which were interconnected in a regional as well as larger European network.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftDocumenta Praehistorica
    Vol/bind43
    Udgave nummer2016
    Sider (fra-til)209-234
    Antal sider27
    ISSN1854-2492
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2016

    Emneord

    • Neolitikum
    • Mesolitikum
    • Ertebølle kulturen
    • Tragtbægerkulturen
    • Tidlige bønder
    • Sydskandinavien

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