Abstract
The article is devoted to a critical discussion of the current concepts of the Neolithisation of Polish lands – from the migration models of colonisation to those that do not exclude the participation of the indigenous Mesolithic population in this process. None of the cited concepts explores the socio-cultural, internally conditioned, mechanisms of this epochal change. In the context of these mechanisms, one should look for the necessary and sufficient conditions for the change to occur, in the form of conscious (or more often unconscious) reinterpretation of symbols, norms and socio-cultural structures. This text outlines a fresh area to be explored in future studies of Neolithisation.
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Sławomir KadrowaThe article is devoted to a critical discussion of the current concepts of the Neolithisation of Polish lands – from the migration models of colonisation to those that do not exclude the participation of the indigenous Mesolithic population in this process
The aim of the article is to outline a fresh area to be explored in future studies of Neolithisation
The intermediate versions of the adaptive concept are more convincing (e.g. Gronenborn 1999; Bogucki 2000: 197–218; Zvelebil 2004). They accept that there was most probably a migration to the north of a population of Starčevo-Körös origin, who invented linear ornamentation (Nowak 2004; 2009: 86). They settled in enclaves in central Europe in the oldest and older phase of the development of the Linear Pottery culture
Summary
The article is devoted to a critical discussion of the current concepts of the Neolithisation of Polish lands – from the migration models of colonisation to those that do not exclude the participation of the indigenous Mesolithic population in this process. None of the cited concepts explores the socio-cultural, internally conditioned, mechanisms of this epochal change. In the context of these mechanisms, one should look for the necessary and sufficient conditions for the change to occur, in the form of conscious (or more often unconscious) reinterpretation of symbols, norms and socio-cultural structures. This text outlines a fresh area to be explored in future studies of Neolithisation. KEY-WORDS: Early Neolithic, Mesolithic, Polish lands, Neolithisation, Danubian cultures
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