
Peter BoguckiPrinceton University | PU
Peter Bogucki
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During the sixth millennium bce, the first farmers of Central Europe rapidly expanded across a varied mosaic of forested environments. Such environments would have offered important sources of mineral-rich animal feed and shelter, prompting the question: to what extent did early farmers exploit forests to raise their herds? Here, to resolve this, w...
In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations, lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over the past 10,000 years1. Although the selection of LP and the consumption of prehistoric milk must be linked, considerable uncertainty remains concerning their spatiotemporal configu...
Over several decades, we have written extensively about the household as a fundamental organizational unit of the Neolithic society. Starting from our definition of the household cluster at Brześć Kujawski 3 and the detailed analysis of household activities at House 56 at Brześć Kujawski 4, we continue to consider the household as the locus of deci...
Stable isotope signatures of domesticates found on archaeology sites provide information about past human behaviour, such as the evolution and adaptation of husbandry strategies. A dynamic phase in cattle husbandry evolution is during the 6th millennium BCE, where the first cattle herders of central Europe spread rapidly through diverse forested ec...
The transition to agriculture in northern Europe around 4000 BC presents an unresolved question. Explanations have vacillated between the adoption of Neolithic things and practices by indigenous foragers to the displacement of Mesolithic populations by immigrant farmers. The goal of this article is to articulate some thoughts on this process. First...
Understanding socioeconomic inequality is fundamental for studies of societal development in European prehistory. This article presents dietary (δ ¹³ C and δ ¹⁵ N) isotope values for human and animal bone collagen from Early Neolithic Osłonki 1 in north-central Poland ( c. 4600–4100 cal BC). A new series of AMS radiocarbon determinations show that,...
When found on settlements of early European farmers, the dietary role of seeds of Chenopodium album (commonly called goosefoot or fat-hen) is difficult to assess. It is often hard to determine whether the small black seeds are modern or ancient. Rarely are they found in sufficient concentrations to warrant radiocarbon dating. Palae-obotanical sampl...
The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of The Cambridge World History explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this...
The introduction of dairying was a critical step in early agriculture, with milk products being rapidly adopted as a major component of the diets of prehistoric farmers and pottery-using late hunter-gatherers. The processing of milk, particularly the production of cheese, would have been a critical development because it not only allowed the preser...
Archaeological research on Neolithic settlements (ca. 5500-4000 cal BC) at and near Oslonki, Poland, is complemented by palaeoenvironmental investigations in three basins with biogenic sediments adjacent to the archaeological sites. Research included sedimentology, palynology, malacology and cladoceran analysis. Complementary lines of evidence indi...
This paper advances the proposition that three key technological and logistical systems matured during the fourth and third
millennia BC in Late Neolithic/Copper Age Europe: transportation infrastructure, durable goods made of metals, and capital
investment in oxen used for traction. As risk rather than uncertainty became the dominant condition und...
Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds. Alasdair Whittle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 443 pp.
Fragments of ceramic sieves constitute a widespread, but littleknown element in the ceramic inventories of Linear Pottery sites in temperate Europe. These sieves appear to have functioned as strainers for separating curds from whey in cheese production, on the basis of parallels with later archaeological cultures and ethnographic examples. Archaeoz...
Encompassing an area of nearly a million square kilometers, central continental Europe (defined as the modern territories of Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Poland) has perhaps the densest archaeological record in the world for an area this size (FIG. 1). From...
The archaeological site Osłonki is situated in central Poland in the Kujawy region. It dates back to the early Neolithic period between 4300 and 4000 B.C. (recalibrated dating), and the individuals that are the subject of our study represent the Lengyel culture. The main purpose of our study was to determine the nutritional strategy of that populat...
The archaeological site Osłonki is situated in central Poland in the Kujawy region. It dates back to the early Neolithic period between 4300 and 4000 B.C. (recalibrated dating), and the individuals that are the subject of our study represent the Lengyel culture. The main purpose of our study was to determine the nutritional strategy of that populat...
The introduction of agriculture to Europe was a complicated process that had a profound impact on human settlement and the natural landscape. Excavations at Os?onki in north-central Poland have revealed a settlement of early farmers from approximately 4300–4000 B.C. Between 1989 and 1994, 30 trapezoidal longhouses and 80 graves were revealed in an...
This paper considers the abandonment of several Neolithic sites in north-central Poland from the perspective of the sustainability or unsustainability of their overall adaptive strategy. The proposition will be advanced that although they were very successful short-term adaptations, their long-term chances were compromised by their intensive local...
The collapse of Communism in eastern Europe has led to significant changes in the research climate for archaeology. Traditional sources of funds have evaporated while others are becoming available. Personnel have changed and many institutions find themselves in a precarious position. Nonetheless, archaeological research has continued throughout the...
The last two decades have seen a significant increase in our knowledge of the earliest farming communities of Central Europe between ca. 5500 and 4000 B.C. (4500–3000 b.c.). These data have led to a better understanding of the chronology, settlement patterns, subsistence economy, and burial practices of these cultures. In addition, data that were v...