Title: TRB culture :
Authors: Midgley, Magdalena S.
Date: 1992
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 550 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: This is the first major synthesis of the TRB (Trichterrandbecher - funnel-necked beaker) culture, one of the most extensive cultural patterns in the European prehistory of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. The TRB culture covers a vast geographical area stretching from South East Poland to the Netherlands, and from Southern Scandinavia to Bohemia and Moravia. Consequently, it presents enormous difficulties to scholars trying to build an overall picture of the culture and its significance: difficulties of language, of the scale of the subject and of the amount of material to be assimilated and assessed. In this book, Magdalena Midgley manages the impressive task of bringing together evidence from the whole North European Plain, including new material published in German, Danish, Dutch, Polish and Russian. It gives the student and the professional archaeologist an up-to-date guide to the basic subject matter from an international perspective, as well as offering an evaluation of the views of other scholars whose findings are not available in English.
Contents: 1. Geographical background -- 2. The late hunter-gatherers of the North European Plain and the neighbouring central European farmers. 2.1. The late Mesolithic groups. 2.2. The early farming groups -- 3. The TRB culture: the historical background -- 4. Regional ceramic sequences of the TRB culture. 4.1. The earliest TRB pottery on the North European Plain. 4.2. The ceramic sequence of the Eastern TRB group. 4.3. The ceramic sequence of the South-eastern TRB group. 4.4. The ceramic sequence of the Northern TRB group. 4.5. Tiefstitch pottery and the ceramic sequence of the Western TRB group. 4.6. The ceramic sequence of the Southern TRB group. 4.7. Summary of the TRB culture ceramic sequences -- 5. The absolute chronology of the TRB culture. 5.1. Eastern TRB group. 5.2. South-eastern TRB group. 5.3. Northern TRB group. 5.4. Western TRB group. 5.5. Southern TRB group. 5.6. Summary of the TRB culture chronology --^ 6. Stone, flint and other industries of the TRB culture. 6.1. Natural flint resources of northern Europe. 6.2. Flint mining in the TRB. 6.3. The flint industry of the TRB culture. 6.4. Flint axes of the TRB culture. 6.5. TRB Culture battle axes. 6.6. Amber in the TRB. 6.7. Copper finds in the TRB culture -- 7. The settlement patterns of the TRB culture. 7.1. TRB sites in the natural landscape. 7.2. The nature of the TRB settlements. 7.3. Domestic architecture of the TRB culture. 7.4. Enclosed sites of the TRB -- 8. The economy of the TRB culture. 8.1. Pollen analytical evidence. 8.2. Plants in the TRB. 8.3. Animal husbandry in the TRB. 8.4. Interpretation of the TRB economy. 8.5. Introduction of farming across the North European Plain -- 9. Funerary traditions in the TRB culture. 9.1. Non-megalithic grave forms of the TRB. 9.2. Megalithic graves of the TRB. 9.3. Burial ritual of the TRB culture. 9.4. Interpretation of the TRB burial ritual --^ 10. The social dimensions of the TRB culture. 10.1. The north European hunter-gatherers. 10.2. The central European farmers. 10.3. The TRB culture -- 11. Conclusions and summary -- Appendix: TRB culture radiocarbon dates.
Notes: Errata slip inserted.
Subject headings (LCSH): Europe, Northern--Antiquities.; Funnel-beaker culture--Europe, Northern.