Archaeology in the Žitava valley II

Overview & Synopsis

This volume presents the second part of the results of an international research project on the Early Neolithic site of Vráble, one of the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, that was started in 2012 and aims to explore the social implications of settlement concentration in the context of early farming communities, on the background of subsistence patterns and landscape use. The second volume of “Archaeology in the Žitava valley” presents the finds, features and data uncovered and synthesised from our archaeological, geophysical, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and stable isotope studies on the LBK and Želiezovce settlement sites of Vlkas ‘Do hulského chotára’ and Úlany nad Žitavou ‘Dolné diely’ among other sites in south-western Slovakia. It puts these data into the wider context of LBK settlement patterns and absolute dating in Central Europe and explores possible land-use scenarios. Finally, it links this research back to the LBK settlement agglomeration of Vráble and analyses the relationship between this central place and lesser sites in its vicinity.