How do they fit together? A case study of Neolithic pottery typology and radiocarbon chronology

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Authors

TRAMPOTA František KVĚTINA Petr

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Archeologické rozhledy
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2020.6
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2020.6
Keywords střední Evropa; neolit; typochronologie keramiky; archeologická kultura; radiokarbonové datování
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Description The object of the paper is to update the current concept of the chronology of the Neolithic (c. 5400–3300 BC) of the Czech Republic and northern Lower Austria by comparing the typo-chronological development of pottery and modelling the corresponding radiocarbon dates. Up until now, pottery and its style have often been perceived in Central Europe as “basic indicators” of archaeological cultures or pottery traditions, which are then further divided into chronological stages and phases. And yet, an analysis of the relation- ships of all three levels of these entities in the context of four types of models of radiocarbon dates indicates that changes in the original material culture do not necessarily occur on a time axis. While it is true that archaeological cultures have proven to be the robust materialisation of primarily chronological trends valid in larger geographic areas, at the level of general and more detailed pottery groups, development can be manifested in other ways (regionally, socially or in a way that is difficult to interpret).
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