Video 4 Bandkeramik

Question 1

Bandkeramik Culture in short

Answer 1

LBK

Question 2

During what time did the Bandkeramik farmers colonize huge parts of Europe?

Answer 2

5500-4900 BCE

Question 3

What Culture brought the farming way of life to almost half of Europe?

Answer 3

The Bandkeramik Culture

Question 4

Where did the Bandkeramik Culture originate?

Answer 4

Hungarian plane

Question 5

When did the number of Bandkeramik settlements start rapidly increasing?

Answer 5

5500 BCE

Question 6

Why was a new Bandkeramik settlement usually founded farther away from an old settlement?

Answer 6

Food shortages due to population growth

Question 7

What soils did the Bandkeramik people prefer?

Answer 7

Loess soils, most fertile soils

Question 8

What did Bandkeramik settlements look like?

Answer 8

Separate houses forming hamlets or even small villagas

Question 9

What does the presence of long, elaborate houses in the Bandkeramik Culture suggest?

Answer 9

Places where leading families lived -> some kind of hierarchy

Question 10

In what kind of area where Bandkeramik settlements

Answer 10

Open space created in lime trees (Tilia)-dominated forest

Question 11

Why could you say that the Bandkeramik Culture lead a predatory way of existence?

Answer 11

Original forest cut down, once soils were exhausted moved on and created new settlements

Question 12

Characteristic Bandkeramik pottery

Answer 12

Bowl-shaped pottery with decoration in ‘bands’

Question 13

Material culture Bandkeramik Culture

Answer 13

• Pottery with ‘waved-bands’ decoration

- Stone adzes

Question 14

What where stone adzes from the Bandkeramik Culture often made from?

Answer 14

Amphibolite

Question 15

What where stone adzes in the Bandkeramik Culture used for?

Answer 15

Cutting trees

Question 16

Agricultural focus Bandkeramik

Answer 16

Wheat, barley, line seed, flax

Question 17

Domesticated animals Bandkeramik Culture

Answer 17

Cattle, sheep/goat, pig

Question 18

What were domesticated animals in the Bandkeramik Culture intended for

Answer 18

Meat consumption, no milk or manure

Question 19

Why was manuring of the ground by Bandkeramik Culture not necessary?

Answer 19

Soil was already fertile

Question 20

Why is the Bandkeramik Culture considered extremely conservative?

Answer 20

Throughout 400 years, hardly any changes in way of life

Question 21

What did the Bandkeramik Culture confide in due to their conservatism?

Answer 21

Their ability to always find new fertile areas of loess soil

Question 22

For how long did hardly any changes occur to the Bandkeramik Culture?

Answer 22

400 years

Question 23

What happens around 5100 to the Bandkeramik Culture?

Answer 23

Signs that large-scale networks collapse, contact networks from which they acquired special stones for adzes (social fragmenting)

Question 24

Signs social fragmentation Bandkeramik Culture

Answer 24

Groups in particular regions start to get more regional, unique characteristics

Question 25

When does the Bandkeramik Culture disappear almost entirely in some areas, like the Netherlands?

Answer 25

4900 BCE

Question 26

What changes in subsistence economy do we see in the Bandkeramik Culture around 4900 BCE?

Answer 26

Settlements no longer built on poorer soils like sand

Question 27

What is the evidence that conflicts causing mass casualties were caused by war between farming communities?

Answer 27

Victims head wounds caused by adzes or axes which hunter-gatherers did not have

Question 28

Hexheam, Germany, Bandkeramik site

Answer 28

Remains of hundreds of individuals found in long ditch. Sings of cannibalism

Question 29

What kind of systems replaced the Bandkeramik Culture?

Answer 29

More flexible systems, people adapted to different environments and soils and started to add new crops to diet