<p>This essay aims to investigate the use of an origin-ID within the Beaker Complex, as defined by John C. Barrett, seen through their different expressions of use in ceramic form and ornamentation, architecture and landscape through time and space with special emphasis on the late Neolihtics in the South of England. The analytic vehicle "the reinforcing circle" is used as a new diffusion model suggested by Stuart Needham, and the analytic tool "incubation" is used to structure the process the Beaker-cultures may have used to reach cultural hegemony. Id est, that the Beaker-cultures socially <em>invites </em>already existing cultures<em>, offering </em>within family and trading<em> </em>the results of new technolo­gies. And/or, <em>occupy</em> <em>the space</em> and use the authority needed by re-writing the narrative as seen in the grave use and grave deposits. The use of a Beaker origin-ID is identified as a peaceful strategy to successfully implement and fullfill a process towards cultural hegemony in areas in Europe where the Beaker cultures presence over time have been identified.</p><p> </p> / Uppsatsen är inte paginerad.

As mudanças dos hábitos de consumo do consumidor, força o desenvolvimento de produtos industrializados mais saudáveis. Assim, pesquisadores em ciência e tecnologia de produtos cárneos, têm focado parte de suas pesquisas no desenvolvimento de produtos com níveis reduzidos de sódio. O presente estudo teve como objetivo buscar por micro-organismos bioprotetores e proteolíticos para o uso em salames com baixo teor de cloreto de sódio (NaCl). O primeiro capitulo consiste em uma revisão de literatura, sendo o segundo o desenvolver salames italianos com 1,0% NaCl com a adição ou não de cloreto de potássio (KCl) e cloreto de cálcio (CaCl2) com características sensoriais semelhantes aos descritos no salames comerciais com 2,5% de NaCl adicionado. Os resultados mostraram diferenças de pH e Aw, devido à redução de NaCl. As misturas substitutas de sal (KCl/CaCl2) nos salames não afetaram tecnologicamente a elaboração de salames. Para os consumidores, esta substituição não acarretou diferenças significativas (p> 0,05) na aparência (cor), porém observou-se diferenças nos demais atributos. Com relação ao teor de sal, os consumidores consideraram os tratamentos com baixo teor de NaCl adicionados dos substitutos KCl e CaCl2 como ideais. No terceiro capitulo, o objetivo foi analisar os aldeídos produzidos pela lipólise e proteólise assim como a aceitação sensorial de salames tipo Italiano com reduzido conteúdo de sódio. Das seis amostras elaboradas, todas foram monitoradas quanto ao pH e atividade de água e após a maturação do salame, foi realizada analise do perfil de voláteis e comparado com a sensorial. Os resultados mostraram a existência de uma relação entre a concentração de aldeídos e aceitação sensorial. Com a finalidade de elucidar a proteólise dos micro-organismos escolhidos, foi realizado no quarto capitulo um estudo com modelos Beaker Sausage (BS) para simular a produção de salame com baixo conteúdo de sódio para avaliar a produção de aminoácidos e peptídeos de culturas starters bacteriocigenicas. O BS contendo Enterococcus mundtii CRL35 apresentou a maior variedade de peptídeos pequenos, seguido pela BS contendo L. curvatus CRL1862. Embora o modelo de carne inoculadas com Lactobacillus plantarum CRL681 produziu o maior número de peptídeos derivados de proteínas sarcoplasmáticas. A pequena quantidade considerável de péptido produzido no BS inoculado permitiu inferir que os conteúdos mais baixos de sódio não afetam negativamente a ação das peptidases microbianas. O objetivo do último capitulo, foi avaliar o efeito das alegações de saúde sobre as aceitação dos salames tipo Italiano com reduzido conteúdo de sódio. Neste estudo, foi avaliada a expectativa gerada pelas alegações de saúde e os resultados mostraram que as alegações tiveram pouco efeito na aceitação dos consumidores decorrentes em valores de aceitação baixo para o protótipo de laboratório. Assim, pode-se concluir que a produção de salames tipo Italiano com teores reduzidos de NaCl, adicionados de CaCl2+ KCl é viável com a pouca adição destes substitutos e o uso de culturas starters bacteriocigênicas, que também são altamente proteolíticas de ser melhor estudado a fim de adequar a proteólise ideal para a formação dos compostos desejáveis no salame com baixo teor de sódio. / Changes in consumers\' eating habits and lifestyle have required the development of healthier processed products. Thus, researchers in science and meat products technology has focused their studies on the development of products with reduced sodium contents. This study investigated the use of bioprotectants and proteolytic microorganisms for low-sodium NaCl in salami. The chapter 1 consists in a literature review. In the second chapter, the objective was to develop Italian salami with 1.0% NaCl with or without the addition of potassium chloride (KCl) and calcium chloride (CaCl2) with sensory characteristics similar to those described in the commercial salami with 2.5% NaCl added. The results showed differences in pH and water activity (Aw) due to the reduction of NaCl. Salt substitutes chloride (KCl / CaCl2) in salamis did not technologically affectsalami preparation. For consumers, this replacement did not cause significant differences (p> 0.05) in appearance (color), but there were differences in other attributes. Regarding the salt content, consumers considered treatment with low NaCl content and added with KCl and CaCl2 as ideal substitutes. In the third chapter, the goal was to analyze the aldehydes produced by lipolysis and proteolysis as well as sensory acceptance of the Italian salami type with reduced sodium content. Allsix samples preparedwere monitored for pH and Aw and after salami maturation, thevolatile profile analysis was performed and compared with the sensory analysis. The results show the existence of a relationship between the concentration of aldehydes and sensory acceptance. In order to elucidate proteolysis of selected microorganisms, in the fourth chapter a study of models Beaker Sausage (BS) was conducted to simulate production of low-sodium salami to evaluate the production of amino acids and peptides of bacteriocigenicstarter cultures. The BS containing Enterococcus mundtii CRL35 showed the greatest variety of small peptides, followed by BS containing Lactobacilluscurvatus CRL1862. However, the meat model inoculated with Lactobacillus plantarum CRL681 produced the largest number of sarcoplasmic proteins derived from peptides. A considerable number of peptides produced in the BS inoculated allowed to infer that lower sodium content did not affect the action of microbial peptidases. The purpose of the last chapter was to evaluate the effect of health claims on the acceptance of Italian-type salami with reduced sodium content. In this study, the expectation generated by health claims wereanalyzed and the results showed that health claims had little effect on the increase of consumer acceptance for the prototype developed in the laboratory. Thus, it can be concluded that the production of Italian-type salami with reduced levels of NaCl, KCl + CaCl2 added is feasible but low addition of these substitutesmust be considered. Moreover, the use of bacteriocigenicstarter cultures, highly proteolytic to achieve optimal proteolysis in the formation of the desired compounds, should adjusted to low-sodiumsalami.

This thesis is concerned with the manufacture of copper artefacts by the users of Bell Beaker pottery in the Eastern Bell Beaker group in central Europe, and addresses the question: did these metalworkers have distinct metallurgical abilities, techniques and preferences that set them apart from contemporary and earlier metal-using groups in the same region? Can we talk of a 'Bell Beaker' metallurgical tradition? Despite the long history of research into the so-called Bell Beaker phenomenon, there has been no definite answer to this question. The composition of copper artefacts is influenced by the production process and the composition of the ore, and so two artefacts that share a similar composition reflect a metallurgical similarity. Artefact composition is defined by variations in trace element impurities that are contained in the copper. Trace elements, however, do not only point to metallurgical processes: they also affect the physical and chemical properties of the metal. Consequently, this thesis aims to clarify whether the distribution of the Bell Beaker phenomenon throughout central Europe and its dissociation from other archaeologically visible groups there is associated with the use of a specific metallurgical tradition. It will be argued that if metal workers of other archaeological groups of the 3rd millennium BC, such as the Corded Ware complex, dealt with different types of copper, having different properties, this would give an insight into the relationship between those people and the Bell Beaker phenomenon in central Europe. In order to explore these issues, a database of some 1943 trace element analyses of Chalcolithic copper objects from central Europe has been created, then statistically grouped and evaluated according to two questions: firstly, were metalworkers selecting specific types of copper for their physical and chemical properties? Secondly, are Eastern Bell Beaker copper artefacts made from specific types of copper? The result of the statistical evaluation has demonstrated that, generally, copper artefacts with higher impurity levels are more common throughout the 3rd millennium BC than in earlier periods. In particular, higher concentrations of arsenic, antimony, lead and nickel (> c. 2%) indicate that these types of copper have improved properties (e.g. hardness, tensile strength, malleability). Furthermore, with the appearance of archaeological remains classified as belonging to the Earliest Bronze Age (e.g. the Blechkreis and the Nitra group), there is an almost exclusive use of types of copper that contain even greater quantities of antimony, nickel and arsenic. These types of copper may have been preferred by metalworkers because their superior tensile strength and hardness improves the quality an artefact. It therefore appears that the metallurgical properties of copper were gradually improved throughout the Chalcolithic in central Europe. It seems that there was a network distributing copper over the area of this research, because the types of copper used by the Eastern Bell Beaker group do not show great regional variation. The uniformity of the archaeological records of the Eastern Bell Beaker group is also reflected in their metalworking tradition. However, it was for the first possible to clarify that the people of the Eastern Bell Beaker group did not deal with a specific type of copper compared with other archaeological groups. Bell Beaker copper types do not differ from those generally used throughout the 3rd millennium BC, albeit that only a small set of Bell Beaker artefacts (chiefly daggers and awls) has provided trace element analyses. As neither regional nor cultural specific metallurgy can be detected for this period, it is argued that the Eastern Bell Beaker group is – at least in metallurgical terms – connected with other local communities in central Europe. Consequently, metallurgy cannot be cited as a defining factor of archaeological groups in central Europe during the 3rd millennium BC. In terms of the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker groups, metallurgical expertise was probably at the same level of knowledge. Hence, even if the types of copper artefact that were manufactured were ‘culture-specific’, the manufacturing techniques and the access to resources were not restricted to a single archaeological group. It can therefore cautiously be suggested that, between c. 2700 and 2000 BC, metallurgists – perhaps as itinerant craftsmen – produced copper artefacts according to the demands of their ‘customers’.

in English The submitted thesis adresses the processing of material culture from the archaeological excavation in Velké Přílepy (district of Prague-west), where the settlement of Funnel Beaker culture was uncovered. The study is a sequel to my bacheolor's thesis (defended in 2010) which evaluated only one part of the excavated settlement and significantly improves its corpus of finds. Therefore there is now a complete analysis of the whole widespread settlement area in an open position without any fortification. Close to sixty structures were documented and dated (based on ceramic analysis) to the Siřem and Salzmündphase of Funnel Beaker culture on this researched area. Thanks to the excavation, an exceptionally rich collection of ceramic production from the Early Eneolithic period (10 105 pieces altogether) exists. Other settlements belonging to the Funnel Beaker culture in the vicinity of Velké Přílepy are also considered in this thesis. Together with this settlement, they create a unique area of settlements of the aforementioned culture.

Cette thèse propose d'appréhender l'évolution des productions céramiques et des échanges entre les îles et le continent depuis le Néolithique jusqu’à l’époque gallo-romaine.Au travers d'approches archéométriques du mobilier céramique, nous interrogeons le rôle des îles bretonnes dans le développement de réseaux de communication et de circulation des hommes et des produits. Ainsi, en déterminant le caractère local ou exogène d'une production, il est possible de cerner le degré d'ouverture ou de repli d'une occupation et son intégration dans les réseaux d'échanges.Pour cela, plusieurs méthodes d'analyse ont été mises en oeuvre à différentes échelles, en relation avec les données typologiques des vases. Des observations macroscopiques, portant sur les traitements de surface ont été réalisées, tout comme des observations microscopiques en lames minces, qui permettront d'identifier le cortège minéralogique présent dans les terres et de déterminer l'origine géologique et géographique des poteries. L’étude des pâtes est complétée par des analyses MEB-EDS, D-RX et P-XRF. Enfin, une nouvelle approche méthodologique appliquée à la provenance des céramiques archéologiques a été développée : l’analyse par LA-ICP-MS des inclusions naturelles ou artificielles des terres cuites.Le cadre chronologique de cette étude, du Néolithique à l'époque gallo-romaine, permet de suivre l'évolution des caractéristiques des céramiques ainsi que leurs lieux d'approvisionnements et de productions.L'interprétation de ces analyses est remise en perspective dans une réflexion plus large sur le statut des sites insulaires : sont-ils des centres de production ou des occupations périphériques dépendantes de centres plus continentaux ? / This thesis proposes to grasp the development of the ceramic productions and exchanges between the islands and the mainland since the Neolithic to the gallo-roman period.Through archaeometric approaches of ceramics, we question the role of the islands Brittany in the development of communication networks and movement of people and products. Thus, determining the local or exogenous nature of a production, it is possible to identify the degree of openness or withdrawal of an occupation and its integration into trade networks.For this, several analytical methods have been implemented at different scales, in relation to the typological datas of the ceramics. Macroscopic observations, on the surface treatments were carried out as microscopic observations in thin sections, which will identify the mineral assemblage in the clay, and to determine the geological and geographical origin of pottery. The study of paste is complemented with analysis by SEM-EDS, XR-D and HH-XRF. At last, a new methodological approach applied to the provenance of archaeological ceramics was developed: the analysis by LA-ICP-MS of natural or artificial inclusions in the potteries.The chronological framework of this study, from the Neolithic to the Gallo-Roman period allows to follow the evolution of the ceramic characteristics, the locations of supply and production.The interpretation of these analysis is put into perspective in a broader considerations on the status of island sites: are they production centers or dependent occupations from continental centers?

Věra Sušická - Diplomová práce 2012 Anglický překlad The final work is concerned with the remanis of dwelling in the context of Funnel Beaker culture. It is divided into five basic regions. In general these regions are consisting of south Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Lower Austria and west Ukraine. 76 localities were obtained from all these regions. There was proof of more then 160 dwellings (Underground/dig houses, post hole houses). Particular types of dwellings and their functional characteristics were described typologically and chronologically. The finds were scrutinized, especially the czech ones. This work also further discusses the issues of the survival process of mentioned dwellings and the ways of evaluation and research. Klíčová slova: Funnel Beaker Culture -Central European kontext - dwelling structure - post hole houses - dig houses Obsah: Text - 117 str. (47 poznámek pod čarou), literatura a prameny - 18 str., obrazové přílohy - 19 obr., tabulky - 44 str., mapy - 5 listů (celkem: 193 listů ve formátu A3, 4 listy ve formátu A4).

Yes / Bell Beaker pottery spread across western and central Europe beginning around 2750 BCE before disappearing between 2200-1800 BCE. The mechanism of its expansion is a topic of long-standing debate, with support for both cultural diffusion and human migration. We present new genome-wide ancient DNA data from 170 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 100 Beaker-associated individuals. In contrast to the Corded Ware Complex, which has previously been identified as arriving in central Europe following migration from the east, we observe limited genetic affinity between Iberian and central European Beaker Complex-associated individuals, and thus exclude migration as a significant mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, human migration did have an important role in the further dissemination of the Beaker Complex, which we document most clearly in Britain using data from 80 newly reported individuals dating to 3900-1200 BCE. British Neolithic farmers were genetically similar to contemporary populations in continental Europe and in particular to Neolithic Iberians, suggesting that a portion of the farmer ancestry in Britain came from the Mediterranean rather than the Danubian route of farming expansion. Beginning with the Beaker period, and continuing through the Bronze Age, all British individuals harboured high proportions of Steppe ancestry and were genetically closely related to Beaker-associated individuals from the Lower Rhine area. We use these observations to show that the spread of the Beaker Complex to Britain was mediated by migration from the continent that replaced >90% of Britain's Neolithic gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the process that brought Steppe ancestry into central and northern Europe 400 years earlier.

Yes / Ceramic containers, intentionally deposited into wetlands, offer detailed insights into Early Neolithic culinary practices. Additionally, they are key for ascertaining the Neolithisation process in Denmark since they appear to form a typo-chronological sequence. Here, we use a combination of organic residue analysis (ORA) of pottery alongside Bayesian chronological modelling of the radiocarbon dates obtained on these vessels to explore the initial stages of votive deposition in wetlands, a practice that stretches from the Mesolithic to the onset of Christianity in Northern Europe. We consider 34 Early-Middle Neolithic (c. 3900–2350 cal BC) ‘bog pots’ from Denmark, of which 20 have ORA data, and 26 have been dated directly. Carbonised surface residues and absorbed lipids from powdered sherds were analysed using a combination of bulk carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and GC-combustion-isotope ratio MS (GC-C-IRMS). The molecular and isotopic compositions of the analysed samples revealed the presence of aquatic, ruminant carcass and dairy fats as well as plant waxes with the majority containing mixtures thereof. Dairy fats were present from the onset of the Funnel Beaker culture, whilst aquatic foods, prevalent at the close of the preceding Mesolithic period, continued to be processed in pottery for the following thousand years. / UK Arts and Humanities Research Board Grant B/RG/AN1717/APN14658 (to O.E.C.) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant AH/E008232/1 (to C.P.H and O.E.C.) for funding this research. H.K.R. acknowledges the British Academy for funding during the preparation of the manuscript.

There were used human skeletal remains from eight Older and Late Eneolithic burial sites from Bohemia to set their health status. I used remains of 307 individuals. Paleodemography analysis of cemeteries and cultures was made. There were shown possible modifications of life table values based on experiment with modern population values. During paleoepidemiological analysis I described the most important categories of pathological findings. The results of analysis were used to make comparisons between themselves and with individuals from the Moravian cemetery of Bell Beaker Culture from Hoštice I za Hanou. An unexpected result was the statistically significant difference in the height of Bohemian and Moravian population of Bell Beaker Culture. Male individuals of Funnel Beaker Culture had the lowest height of all. There were found only two congenital anomalies, plagiocephalia and Klippel-Feil syndrome (fused cervical vertebrae). X-ray images were made of the most important findings for better diagnosis. Except the classic categories of pathologies I detected two cases of hyperostosis frontalis interna, both females from a burial site of Corded Ware Culture in Vikletice. In five cases were found osteoplastic growth on the visceral surface of the ribs of individuals of Bell Beaker Culture from...

Despite the potential of a biocultural methodology, osteology and archaeology are often approached separately in some parts of Central Europe. This osteoarchaeological thesis presents a rare comparative study of populations occupying modern-day Slovakia, Moravia, and Bohemia from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (EBA). By examining skeletal indicators of health and lifestyle, it aims to contribute to bioarchaeological research within the study region. It also provides new insights into a series of important sites where no osteological evaluation of skeletal remains have previously been performed. Human remains from thirty-four sites in Slovakia, Moravia and Bohemia, 152 adults and 136 subadults, were analysed. Demographic, pathological and metric data were recorded and evaluated, and compared with previously published data for contemporaneous populations in order to create a more comprehensive representation of the populations in the area. The results suggest several differences between the Neolithic and the following periods, mostly as regards health status. Higher dietary and environmental stress was indicated in the Neolithic period, as suggested by lower mortality peak (especially of females and subadults) and about 5cm shorter stature, and generally worse health status of Neolithic population when compared to the Chalcolithic and EBA individuals. The Neolithic is also the only period where females were more numerous than males. Such a trend is quite common in the Neolithic of the study region. This may be a result of increased migration of Neolithic females, as raids for wives are suggested to have been practiced. As indicated by both the osteological and archaeological record, one of the sites examined, Svodín, could have been a site of contemporary elites and their family members. Chalcolithic populations revealed differences in cranial shape, being mesocephalic (medium-headed) or brachycephalic (short-headed), whereas both the Neolithic and the EBA populations were dolichocephalic (long-headed). Differences in male and female cranial features suggest a possible mixing of indigenous and incoming populations. Such results may contribute to the ongoing discussion about the ‘foreignness‘ of Chalcolithic Bell Beaker people in the area. Traumatic lesions suggest that males were more physically active than females in all three periods, including violent encounters. Even though violence was recorded in all three periods, especially in the western part of the region, and the intensity and brutality of the assaults appears to increase in the Chalcolithic and culminating in the EBA. In addition, poorer health status of EBA children was recorded, possibly related to more marked social differentiation in the period. In general, poorer health was implied for the prehistoric populations of today’s Slovakia. The results of this study can serve as the basis for future research and contribute to a more comprehensive image of lifestyle and development of prehistoric populations in the study area.