Vol. 72 No. 2 (2020)
Research Article

How do they fit together? A case study of Neolithic pottery typology and radiocarbon chronology

František Trampota
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1, CZ-602 00 Brno
Petr Květina
Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Letenská 4, CZ-118 01 Praha 1

Published 01-06-2020

Keywords

  • Central Europe,
  • Neolithic,
  • pottery typo-chronology,
  • archaeological culture,
  • radiocarbon dating

How to Cite

Trampota, F., & Květina, P. (2020). How do they fit together? A case study of Neolithic pottery typology and radiocarbon chronology. Archeologické Rozhledy, 72(2), 163–193. https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2020.6

Abstract

The object of the paper is to update the current concept of the chronology of the Neolithic (c. 5400–3300 BC) of the Czech Republic and northern Lower Austria by comparing the typo-chronological development of pottery and modelling the corresponding radiocarbon dates. Up until now, pottery and its style have often been perceived in Central Europe as “basic indicators” of archaeological cultures or pottery traditions, which are then further divided into chronological stages and phases. And yet, an analysis of the relationships of all three levels of these entities in the context of four types of models of radiocarbon dates indicates that changes in the original material culture do not necessarily occur on a time axis. While it is true that archaeological cultures have proven to be the robust materialisation of primarily chronological trends valid in larger geographic areas, at the level of general and more detailed pottery groups, development can be manifested in other ways (regionally, socially or in a way that is difficult to interpret).

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