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Reconnecting the Late Neolithic Social Landscape: A Micro-Regional Study of Objects, Settlements and Tombs from Iberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ana Jorge
Ana Jorge*
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University of Aberdeen, UK
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The contrast between monumentalized burials and almost invisible settlements has dominated Neolithic studies in western Europe, reinforcing an artificial divide between ceremonial and economically productive landscapes. By combining a material culture approach with a landscape scale, comparative artefact studies can trace connections between people, places, and social contexts. This paper investigates social networks in Late Neolithic Portugal by examining artefact provenance, biographies, and deposition on the Mondego Plateau. It focuses on three sites and four object categories characteristic of this period. The study reveals great diversity of raw materials, circulation of everyday objects, and regional availability of resources previously thought to be imports. It suggests that people used dispersed resource areas in an integrated way, and that exchange was an integral part of routine life. Evidence for links across the region is not restricted to tombs. Burial assemblages resulted from a complex web of social relations that preceded, accompanied, and followed the actions surrounding death. Understanding these places and fundamental questions about Neolithic social production and reproduction requires reconnecting tombs and settlements into wider lived landscapes.

Le contraste entre les sépultures monumentalisées et les villages presqu'invisibles a dominé les études du Néolithique en Europe de l'Ouest, tout en renforçant le clivage artificiel entre les paysages ceremoniels et ceux matériellement productifs. En combinant une approche relevant de la culture matérielle à l'échelle du paysage, des études comparatives d'artefacts peuvent être redevables des connexions entre personnes, lieux et contextes sociaux. Cet article étudie les réseaux sociaux au Portugal à la fin du Néolithique en examinant la provenance, les biographies et le dépôt des artefacts sur le plateau du Mondego. Il se focalise sur trois sites et quatre catégories d'objets caractéristiques de cette période et révèle une grande diversité dans les domaines suivants: matériaux bruts, circulation des objets de la vie quotidienne et disponibilité régionale de ressources considérées auparavant comme importations. On suggère que les communautés utilisaient d'une manière intégrée des régions de ressources dispersées et que l'échange faisait partie intégrante de la vie de tous les jours. Les preuves des liens à travers la région ne se trouvent pas seulement dans les tombes. Les ensembles funéraires résultaient d'un complexe réseau de relations sociales qui précédaient, accompagnaient et suivaient les actions concernant la mort. Pour comprendre ces places et les questions fondamentales au sujet de la reproduction sociale et de la reproduction au Néolithique, il faut reconnecter les tombes et les villages dans un contexte de paysages habités plus large. Translation by Isabelle Gerges.

Zusammenfassung

Zusammenfassung

Der Kontrast zwischen monumentalisierten Gräbern und nahezu unsichtbaren Siedlungen hat die Studien zum Neolithikum in Westeuropa dominiert und eine künstliche Trennung zwischen zeremoniellen und materiell produktiven Landschaften untermauert. Durch die Kombination eines Ansatzes der materiellen Kultur auf Landschaftsebene, können vergleichende Artefaktstudien Verbindungen zwischen Menschen, Orten und sozialen Kontexten nachvollziehen. Durch die Untersuchung der Artefaktherkunft, von Artefaktbiographien und -deponierung auf dem Mondego-Plateau untersucht dieser Beitrag soziale Netzwerke im Spätneolithikum des heutigen Portugal. Er betrachtet drei Fundplätze und vier Objektkategorien, die für diese Periode charakteristisch sind, im Detail. Die Studie erbringt eine große Diversität an Rohmaterialien, Umlauf von Alltagsgegenständen und regionaler Verfügbarkeit von Ressourcen, von denen zuvor angenommen worden ist, dass es sich bei ihnen um Importe gehandelt hat. Sie machen es wahrscheinlich, dass die Menschen verstreut liegende Ressourcengebiete auf integriertem Wege nutzten und dass Austausch einen integralen Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens bildete. Nachweise für Verbindungen quer durch die Region sind nicht allein auf Gräber beschränkt. Grabausstattungen ergaben sich aus einem komplexen Netz sozialer Verbindungen, die den Handlungen, die den Tod umgaben, vorausgingen, diese begleiteten und nachfolgten. Für das Verständnis dieser Orte und fundamentaler Fragen zur sozialen Produktion und Reproduktion bedarf es der Wiederverbindung der Gräber und Siedlungen in die erweiterten Besiedlungslandschaften. Translation by Heiner Schwarzberg

Keywords

Late Neolithicsocial landscapemegalithic tombssettlementobject biographiessocial networksprovenanceIberiaNéolithique finalpaysage socialtombes mégalithiquesvillagebiographies des objetsréseaux sociauxprovenanceIbérieSpätneolithikumsoziale LandschaftMegalithgräberSiedlungObjektbiographiensoziale NetzwerkeHerkunftIberische Halbinsel
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European Journal of Archaeology , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , 2014 , pp. 434 - 467
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