The ISU Anthropology Department and Student Anthropology Society is pleased to announce the upcoming Visiting Researcher Talk:
Warfare, Economy, and Village Development during the Belgian Early Neolithic
Dr. Mark Golitko
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, October 8, 2010 4 p.m.
North Fork Room, Pond Student Union
Dr. Golitko's talk reviews evidence for changing settlement patterns and social structure among villages of the early Neolithic Linienbandkeramik (LBK) culture in the Hesbaye region of eastern Belgium. The LBK represents the first agricultural society of central Europe—LBK villages first appeared on the Hungarian Plain around 5650 BC, and rapidly expanded across the loessic areas of Europe north of the Alps, reaching eastern Belgium between 5300-5200 BC. Expanding farmers encountered indigenous hunter-gatherer/forager groups throughout Europe, sometimes incorporating these people into LBK communities. During the later stages of the western LBK, there is extensive evidence of violence, which certainly occurred between LBK villages, but may also have occurred between farmers and foragers. Using compositional analysis, changing patterns of resource procurement, production, and inter-village exchange are explored as they relate to the growth of LBK communities in the Hesbaye and the outbreak of violence evidenced by the construction of large, labor-intensive fortifications during later settlement. These data tie into a growing body of evidence suggesting that incipient processes of social and economic stratification were present during the later early Neolithic in Europe.
Posted by John Dudgeon, 9/23/2010
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