Central European Early Bronze Age chronology revisited: A Bayesian examination of large-scale radiocarbon dating.

ABSTRACT: In archaeological research, changes in material culture and the evolution of styles are taken as major indicators for socio-cultural transformation. They form the basis for typo-chronological classification and the establishment of phases and periods. Central European Bronze Age material culture from burials reveals changes during the Bronze Age and represents a perfect case study for analyzing phenomena of cultural change and the adoption of innovation in the societies of prehistoric Europe. Our study focuses on the large-scale change in material culture which took place in the second millennium BC and the emergence at the same period of new burial rites: the shift from inhumation burials in flat graves to complex mounds and simple cremation burials. Paul Reinecke was the first to divide

SUBMITTER: Brunner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769557 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature