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6 - Emergent Properties of the Corded Ware Culture: An Information Approach

from Part II - Migratory Processes and Linguistic Dispersals between Yamnaya and the Corded Ware

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2023

By
Quentin Bourgeois  and
Erik Kroon
Edited by
Kristian Kristiansen ,
Guus Kroonen  and
Eske Willerslev
Kristian Kristiansen
Affiliation:
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Guus Kroonen
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Eske Willerslev
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
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Summary

How do virtually identical burial rituals and worldviews emerge among widely dispersed communities? Five thousand years ago, preliterate Corded Ware communities throughout Europe achieved this remarkable feat. For half a millennium, these communities performed near-identical burial rituals in an area that extends from the Volga to the Rhine. What processes shaped such durable uniformity?

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Information
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics
 , pp. 81 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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