Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany)

Penny Bickle; Daniela Hofmann; R. Alexander Bentley; Robert Hedges; Julie Hamilton; Fernando Laiginhas; Geoff Nowell; D. Graham Pearson; Gisela Grupe; Alasdair Whittle

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00062037

Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany)

Penny Bickle
, Daniela Hofmann
, R. Alexander Bentley
, Robert Hedges
, Julie Hamilton
, Fernando Laiginhas
, Geoff Nowell
, D. Graham Pearson
, Gisela Grupe
, Alasdair Whittle

Archaeology

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Abstract

The early Neolithic in northern Central Europe ought to be the theatre in which incoming farmers meet local hunter-gatherers, with greater or lesser impact. By way of contrast, the authors use isotope analysis in a cemetery beside the Danube to describe a peaceful, well-integrated community with a common diet and largely indigenous inhabitants. Men and women may have had different mobility strategies, but the isotopes did not signal special origins or diverse food-producing roles. Other explanations attend the variations in the burial rites of individuals and their distribution into cemetery plots.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1243-1258
Number of pages	16
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	85
Issue number	330
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062037
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011

Keywords

Germany
Neolithic
LBK
isotope analysis
diversity
first farmers

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