Publication details

Zvelebil, M. Lillie, M.C., Montgomery, J. , Lukes, A. Pettitt, P. & Richards, M.P. (2012). The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture. In Population Dynamics in Pre- and Early History: New Approaches By Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics. Burger, J. Kaiser, E. & Schier, W. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 133-148.

• Publication type: Chapter in book
• ISSN/ISBN: 9783110266306
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110266306.133
• Keywords: Linearbandkeramik (LBK), Bioarchaeology, Neolithic, Strontium,
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Author(s) from Durham

• Professor Janet Montgomery

Abstract

This paper represents one element of a collaborative research
project, funded by the AHRC, which focussed on a multidisciplinary
study of the Earlier Neolithic cemetery of Vedrovice,
Moravia, Czech Republic. One of the key aims of this project
was the generation of new knowledge in relation to the emergence
of the Linear Pottery, or Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture
in Europe. The current paper focuses on the evidence for
the shift from hunting and gathering to farming from the perspective
of individual life histories and the transmission of
knowledge through migration and cultural exchanges.