Emergent properties of the corded ware culture: an information approach

Author(s):
Bourgeois, Q.P.J. (0000-0001-7518-2142); Kroon, E.J. (0000-0001-9019-2621)
Editor(s):
Kristiansen, K.; Kroonen, G.; Willerslev, E.
Published
2023
Publication type
Part of book or chapter of book

Abstract

How do virtually identical burial rituals and worldviews emerge among widely dispersed communities? Five thousand years ago, preliterate Corded Ware communities throughout Europe achieved this remarkable feat. For half a millennium, these communities performed near-identical burial rituals in an area that extends from the Volga to the Rhine. What processes shaped such durable uniformity?

Date issued
2023-04-29
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Is part of
The Indo-European puzzle revisited (2023), p. 81-92
ISBN source
9781009261753
hdl
1887/3656048
doi
10.1017/9781009261753.010
URL
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/indoeuropean-puzzle-revisited/emergent-properties-of-the-corded-ware-culture-an-information-approach/5C793808C1DC5FDFC192E697D984A283

Funding

Sponsorship
NWO
Grant number
VI.Vidi.191.149