DFF-Research Project 2: Deep histories of migration: the early Neolithic around the North Sea

  • Iversen, R. (Participant)
  • Mathias Paul Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist (Participant)
  • Vicki Cummings (Participant)
  • Daniela Hofmann (Participant)

Activity: Other activity types › Other

Description

This research project focuses on the processes of migration and mobility at the start of the Neolithic (c. 4000 BC). This period saw one of the most dramatic changes in prehistory, as agriculture and its associated practices spread into Europe through the migration of people as shown by aDNA. However, we cannot understand migration just through aDNA. Our hypothesis is that the current aDNA-produced narratives do not take account of the archaeological evidence nor the nuance of migration as a social process. Our main aim is to uncover the longer-term impact of migration, which includes the relationship between different forms of contact and material culture change. In order to address this research question we will focus on the long-term networks and connections between southern Scandinavia, Britain and Ireland, hitherto barely considered. We will reveal how these connections developed and changed over the following centuries up until 3300 BC.
Period1 Jan 2021 → 30 Jun 2026
Held atSAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Early Neolithic
  • Migration
  • North Sea
  • 4th millennium BC
  • Networks

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