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‘Hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother’

Change and persistence in the European early Neolithic

Collaborative Research Centre 417, University of Leipzig, usommer{at}sfb417.uni-Leipzig.de

This article examines at the scope for agency in the early Neolithic central European Linearbandkeramik culture (5600-4800 BC). It discusses whether a lack of development in certain areas of material culture should be interpreted as evidence of a stable lebenswelt (life-world), where change is simply unimaginable, or if this in contrast provides evidence for mechanisms actively preventing stylistic change, thus representing a state of orthodoxy, according to Bourdieu.

I demonstrate how the different rates of development in different areas of material culture can be linked to the respective ideological importance of these objects, and how these change through time.

Key Words: agency • central Europe • Lebenswelt • lifeworld • Linearbandkeramik • material culture • Neolithic • stylistic change

Journal of Social Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 2, 244-270 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/146960530100100206


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