Pots, stones, bones and a grain: the recipe for a more nuanced view of Neolithisation along the Atlantic façade

Hinz, Martin (11 May 2023). Pots, stones, bones and a grain: the recipe for a more nuanced view of Neolithisation along the Atlantic façade (Unpublished). In: The early Neolithic of Northern Europe: new approaches to migration, movement and social connection. Copenhagen. 11th-12th May 2023.

The Early Neolithic, in very rough terms, is characterised on the Atlantic façade by a set of elements that include pottery, agriculture and animal husbandry, monumental funerary architecture and collective communal buildings in burial and ritual. Recent genetic studies seem to lend credence to a long-held interpretation of this phenomenon as the result of migration. However, a closer look reveals significant differences in the chronology as well as in the character of the adoption of these phenomena, especially in the individual areas of Europe that can be assigned to a second phase of neolithisation. For the phase of social transformation that followed about 1000 years later, Martin Furholt has recently proposed a model that dissects the individual elements in terms of different communities of practice for the spread of the Beaker Ceramics. In my paper I would like to apply this model to the elements of the first potential migration phase, and show how pottery, agriculture and monumental architecture can be taken apart according to their temporality and their potential origin, and how this can lead to a more differentiated archaeological picture that allows for a more nuanced narrative of these historical developments and takes the reality of migration into account.

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