The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe : Mobility and Local Evolution During the 3rd Millennium BC.

Intro -- Preface -- 1. I ntroduction. A Folk who will never speak: Bell Beakers and linguistics -- 2. Bell Beakers and Corded Ware people in the Little Poland Upland - an anthropological point of view -- 3. Personal identity and social structure of Bell Beakers: the Upper Basins of the Oder and Vistula Rivers -- 4. Bell Beaker stone wrist-guards as symbolic male ornament. The significance of ceremonial warfarein 3rd millennium BC central Europe -- 5. The earlier Bell Beakers: migrations to Britain and Ireland -- 6. Bell Beakers - chronology, innovation and memory: a multivariate approach -- 7. The long-house as a transforming agent. Emergent complexity in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Agesouthern Scandinavia 2300-1300 BC -- 8. Expanding 3rd millennium transformations: Norway -- 9. The Bell Beaker Complex: a vector of transformations? Stabilities and changes of the indigenous culturesin south-east France at the end of the Neolithic Period -- 10. The dagger phenomenon: circulation from the Grand-Pressigny region (France, Indre-et-Loire)in western Europe -- 11. Long-distance contacts: north-west Iberia during the 3rd millennium BC -- 12. Early gold technology as an indicator of circulation processes in Atlantic Europe -- 13. Environmental changes in north-western Iberia around the Bell Beaker period (2800-1400 cal BC) -- 14. Evidence of agriculture and livestock. The palynological record from the middle Ebro valley(Iberian Peninsula) during the 3rd and 2nd millennia cal. BC -- 15. Bell Beaker pottery as a symbolic marker of property rights: the case of the salt production centreof Molino Sanchón II , Zamora, Spain -- 16. Exploring social networks through Bell Beaker contexts in the central Valencia region from recentdiscoveries at La Vital (Gandía, Valencia, Spain).

17. Dynamism and complexity of the funerary models: the north-west Iberian peninsuladuring the 3rd-2nd millennia BC -- 18. Concluding remarks.

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