The Dynamics of Settlement Concentration Processes and Land-use in Early Farming Communi-ties in the North-western Carpathian Basin (C02)

• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290391021

Project C2 investigates the social and environmental consequences of settlement agglomeration and dispersion within early farming communities of the LBK and Lengyel periods in the Žitava-Valley in Slovakia. In Phase 2, the project will concentrate on the settlement abandonment after the LBK period and explore the subsequent dispersal of social groups connected to the transition from latest LBK to early Lengyel material culture. Furthermore, the role of long-distance communication networks will be explored. These social and environmental transformations will be investigated by archaeological, geophysical, archaeobotanical and palaeoecological methods.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1266: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
• International Connection: Norway
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Martin Furholt, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Johannes Müller, from 12/2019 until 6/2020; Dr. Maria Wunderlich, since 7/2020