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SoSe 21: The 5th mill. BC in eastern Central and Southeast Europe - recent research results

Wolfram Schier

Information for students

Dies ist eine polyvalente Veranstaltung, die gleichzeitig in das BA-Modul Sachkultur und Chronologie gehört.

Additional information / Pre-requisites

Die Vorlesung wird mit (Abend-)Vorträgen ergänzt.

Comments

Differing from the periods of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age, which are applied throughout Europe, the concept of a Copper Age has only been accepted and applied in the eastern half of Europe and Western Asia, albeit with regionally quite different definitions and connotations. In the 1970s and 1980s attempts were undertaken to fill the notion of Copper Age with culture-historical meaning, expanding far beyond its concept as category of relative chronology. Differing concepts and definitions as well as substantial shifts in the absolute dating of the period have created terminological fault lines as well as new perspectives and have challenged the culture-historical interpretation of the Copper Age as a whole. The Colloquium will be held online partly as lecture, partly by contributions of invited external researchers. The Colloquium will provide an overview over the materiality and selected find complexes between the late 6th millennium (earliest extraction of copper ore) and the beginning of the 4th millennium in Southeast and Eastern Central Europe. Besides specific cultures and sites the relative periodisation and absolute dating will be covered. Contributions of external colleagues will present actual discourses and results concerning the research on the 5th millennium. The Colloquium aims at challenging traditional labelling and hypotheses about the Copper Age and provide an actual, differentiated, and dynamic view of the period. close