FRÜHBRONZEZEITLICHE BEFESTIGUNGEN IM OBEREN ŽITAVATAL: PROZESSE VON SYNOIKISMOS UND DIOIKISMOS

• Authors: Muller-Scheeßel Nilsss , Gerbecks Philipp , Rassmann Knut

Title variants

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Early Bronze Age fortifications in the Upper Žitava valley: Process of synoikismos and dioikismos

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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During recent research in the Upper Žitava valley, previously unknown Early Bronze Age fortifications were discovered near Hul and Vlkas. They probably represented the seat of relatively small social groups. In the Žitava valley only the site Vráble-Fidvár grew beyond this early stage into a large settlement of an area of up to 12 ha. In the course of a process of synoicism, the other sites were abandoned voluntarily or involuntarily, and the social groups there probably moved to Vráble. We may assume that this has also led to social division and hierarchisation, with the newcomers being dominated by the small group that had initially occupied Vráble. At the end of the Early Bronze Age in the course of a kind of dioicism, the large settlement of Vráble was abandoned. Afterwards, small settlements again dominated the settlement pattern.

Keywords

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SLOVAKIA; EARLY BRONZE AGE; FORTIFICATION; SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTION; UPPER ŽITAVA

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 68
• Issue: suppl 1
• Pages: 417 – 428

Contributors

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Muller-Scheeßel Nilsss

• Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2–6, D – 24118 Kiel, Germany

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Gerbecks Philipp

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Rassmann Knut

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2020.suppl.1.35