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    "title": "Contacts, boundaries and innovation in the fifth millennium",
    "subtitle": "Exploring developed Neolithic societies in central Europe and beyond",
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    "description": "<br />The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism, representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement system, in architecture and in routine life. Yet, these inter-regional tendencies are paired with a profusion of increasingly small-scale archaeological cultures, many of them defined through pottery only. This tension between large-scale interaction and more local developments remains ill understood, largely because inter-regional comparisons are lacking.<br />Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date regional overviews of the main developments in the fifth millennium and discuss, amongst others, in how far ceramically-defined 'cultures' can be seen as spatially coherent social groups with their own way of life and worldview, and how processes of innovation can be understood.<br />Case studies range from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands, hunter-gatherer - farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to the Italian Neolithic. Amongst others, they cover the circulation of stone disc-rings in western Europe, the formation of post-LBK societies in central Europe and the reliability of pottery as an indicator for social transformations.<br />Contents:<br />List of contributors<br />The fifth millennium: the emergence of cultural diversity in central European prehistory<br />Daniela Hofmann and Ralf Gleser<br />Part 1: Diverse populations<br />On the periphery and at a crossroads: a Neolithic creole society on the Lower Vistula in the fifth millennium BC<br />Peter Bogucki<br />The Brze?? Kujawski culture. The north-easternmost Early Chalcolithic communities in Europe<br />Lech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel<br />Taboo? The process of Neolithisation in the Dutch wetlands re-examined (5000-3400 cal BC)<br />D.C.M. Raemaekers<br />Part 2: Interaction and change<br />The fifth millennium BC in central Europe. Minor changes, structural continuity: a period of cultural stability<br />Christian Jeunesse<br />Early Middle Neolithic pottery decoration - different cultural groups or just one supraregional style of its time?<br />Karin Riedhammer<br />The oldest box-shaped wooden well from Saxony-Anhalt and the Stichbandkeramik culture in central Germany<br />Ren\u00e9 Wollenweber<br />A vessel with zoomorphic depiction from the Epi-R\u00f6ssen horizon at Oberbergen am Kaiserstuhl: an evolutionary perspective on an unusual artefact<br />Ralf Gleser<br />Part 3: Community, interaction and boundaries<br />Strategies of boundary making between northern and southern Italy in the late sixth and early fifth millennium BC<br />Valeska Becker<br />The transition from the sixth to the fifth millennium BC in the southern Wetterau - pottery as expression of contacts, boundaries and innovation<br />Johanna Ritter-Burkert<br />On the relationship of the Michelsberg culture and Epir\u00f6ssen groups in south-west Germany in the light of absolute chronology, aspects of culture definition, and spatial data<br />Ute Seidel<br />Schiepzig enclosures: gaps in the archaeological record at the end of the fifth millennium BC in northern central Germany?<br />Johannes M\u00fcller, Kay Schm\u00fctz and Christoph Rinne<br />The jadeitite-omphacitite and nephrite axeheads in Europe: the case of the Czech Republic<br />Anton\u00edn P?ichystal, Josef Jan Kov\u00e1?, Martin Ku?a and Kate?ina Fridrichov\u00e1<br />Disc-rings of Alpine rock in western Europe: typology, chronology, distribution and social significance<br />Pierre P\u00e9trequin, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Yvan Pailler, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Prod\u00e9o, Anne-Marie P\u00e9trequin and Alison Sheridan",
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