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This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material wealth in enclosure ditches.0This is the kind of behaviour that archaeologists generally interpret as ritual (often using the label "structured deposition"), but it is surprisingly little discussed for the Linearbandkeramik. This volume thus addresses two main goals. First, it contributes a new approach to the study of Linearbandkeramik world view by focusing on depositional practices more generally and addressing the connections between them. How do the more striking or unusual examples of deposition articulate with routine discard, and what does this tell us about how Linearbandkeramik societies saw these objects and their use? Second, given the wealth of data available for the Linearbandkeramik, there is an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding the variety of depositional phenomena across the European Neolithic and their theoretical and methodological implications.0This book thus combines chapters dealing with routine discard, as well as those concerned with burial evidence, formalised deposition of objects and feasting debris.

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- History --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological assemblages --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Bandkeramik culture --- Bandkeramik culture. --- Hoards, Prehistoric --- Hoards, Prehistoric. --- Ritual --- Ritual. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Antiquities --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- History.

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The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which

Bandkeramik culture. --- Neolithic period --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Band ceramic culture --- Ceramika wstegowa culture --- Ceramique lineaire culture --- Danubian I culture --- Early Danubian culture --- Incised Ware Group --- LBK (Neolithic culture) --- Linear Band Pottery culture --- Linear Band Ware culture --- Linear Ceramics culture --- Linear Pottery culture --- Linear Ware culture --- Linearbandkeramik culture --- Rubané culture --- Volutova keramika culture --- Europe, Central --- Antiquities. --- Neolithic peoples --- Bandkeramik culture --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Neolithic period - Europe, Central --- Prehistoric peoples - Europe, Central --- Europe, Central - Antiquities

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Living Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic. Each paper makes a significant contribution to existing knowledge about the period, and the book, like its companion (Un)settling the Neolithic (Oxbow 200

Neolithic period --- Prehistoric peoples --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Balkan Peninsula --- Europe, Central --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- Primitive societies