Conference LBK & Vinca

Although geographically widely separated, the Formation of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in the Pannonian Basin and the Transformation from Starčevo to Vinča in Southeast Europe are chronologically largely parallel. Structurally they are very different. The LBK encompasses geographic expansion, as well as socially homogeneous and egalitarian settlement structures. The Vinča culture is associated with centralization, social differentiation and stratified settlement structures. Yet, even accepting the validity of such hypothesized societal differences between LBK and Vinča - and we must surely also account for the deplorably low (centennial-scale) precision of existing absolute (14C-based) chronologies - is it actually credible that both derive in continuous cultural sequence from Starčevo? To refine our knowledge of the development of Early Sedentary Societies in Europe, and using LBK and Vinča as key (but not exclusive) examples, we would like to exchange views, ideas, concepts and models at an International Conference. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters Schloss Hohentübingen Burgsteige 11 D-72070 Tübingen Hotel am Bad [email protected] Thursday, 21 March 2019, 7.00 pm, Ernst von Sieglin lecture hall John Chapman (Durham) The Vinča group – (almost) 50 years on Temporary Exhibition ‘Steinzeitdorf und Keltengold’, Museum ‘Ancient Cultures’ 15 March – 28 April 2019; formal opening 14 March, 19.00, Schlosskapelle Poster session “Neolithic sites in the upper Neckar region”, 22-23 March 2019, Fürstenzimmer From 18 March to 13 April 2019 the current excavation at the LBK settlement of AmmerbuchPfäffingen “Lüsse” can be visited. Contact: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Raiko Krauß (Institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, Tübingen University) Dr. Jörg Bofinger (State Office for Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Esslingen) Dr. Bernhard Weninger (Institute of Prehistory, Cologne & Tübingen Universities) Friday, 22 March (9.00) Bernhard Weninger (Cologne) History of the Radiocarbon chronology of the Early Neolithic in central and southeast Europe Penny Bickle (York) Investigating Neolithic social diversity from Bioarchaeology Daniela Hofmann (Bergen) Not going anywhere? Migration and mobility as social practices Ernst Pernicka (Mannheim) Development of metallurgy in Eurasia Canay Alpagut (Tübingen) The appearance of Notenkopf-like pottery decoration in Anatolia from the second half of the 6th millennium Silvia Amicone (Tübingen) Vinča Culture Ceramics: A Technological Approach Nenad Tasić (Belgrade) What a handle can handle? (Some examples of ergonomic principles in pottery production at Vinča-Belo Brdo) Dragoş Diaconescu (Timişoara) The early Vinča culture in Transylvania. Considerations regarding its chronological position, from the perspective of correspondence analysis Dušan Borić (New York) Society against the state: Axe and sickle men, enclosures, and violence in the Vinča world Wolfram Schier (Berlin) Culture change on a micro-scale - site biography and cultural identity at Uivar (Romania) Saturday, 23 March (9.00) Johannes Müller (Kiel) Melting pots and networks: Different social approaches within LBK and Vinča? Barbara Horejs (Vienna) A southern perspective on the formation of early farming communities in the central Balkans Kamen Boyadzhiev (Sofia) The transition to the Late Neolithic in the Upper Thracian Plain (Southern Bulgaria) Petăr Zidarov (Sofia) Social dynamics and structural variations in the Neolithic settlement patterns in Bulgaria during the late sixth and early fifth millennia BC Lennart Brandtstätter (Tübingen) 14C-Chronology of Late Neolithic tell settlements in the Balkan region Robert Hofmann & Nils Müller-Scheeßel (Kiel) Orientation of Neolithic Dwellings in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin – Common cosmological concept or environmental/regional adaptation? Marko Porčić (Belgrade) Archaeology of the Vinča culture: formation, demography, and social structure Marcel Burić (Zagreb) Hephaistos‘ Wisdom: Firing Technologies of the Late Neolithic Southeast Europe (tell site Bapska, Croatia) Katarina Botić (Zagreb) Middle Neolithic transformation: Starčevo–LBK– Vinča meeting point and the emergence of Ražište style in Drava river valley Elena Marinova-Wolff, Elske Fischer, Tanja Märkle, Oliver Nelle & Manfred Rösch (all Hemmenhofen) Common elements of the plant economy of Vinča and LBK? Archaeobotanical case studies from the Danube catchments in SE Europe and Germany Miroslav Marić & Neda Mirković Marić (Subotica) The Tisza divide. The missing late Neolithic transformation in the north Bačka region of Serbia Angela Kreuz (Wiesbaden), Péter Pomázi (Budapest), Anett Osztás (Budapest), Krisztián Oross (Budapest), Tibor Marton (Budapest), Jörg Petrasch (Tübingen), László Domboróczki (Budapest), Pál Raczky (Budapest) & Eszter Bánffy (Frankfurt) Hungarian Neolithic crops and diet – signals for cultural decisions? Thomas Link (Esslingen) Longhouses and Tells. Comparing LBK and Vinča houses and settlements Harald Stäuble (Dresden) The Dawn of LBK-Houses revisited Christiane Frirdich (Hechingen) Stylistic Variation and statistics in Eythra. A reassessment of LBK typochronology Jörg Petrasch (Tübingen) The settlement patterns of the Earliest Bandkeramik and the LBK in comparison János Jakucs (Budapest) Coalescence of Vinča and LBK in southeast Transdanubia: A view from the south Tibor Marton, Gergely Gortva & Krisztián Oross (all Budapest) Variations of material culture on the Transdanubian fringes of the LBK and their relations to the Vinča universe: a view from the north Krisztián Oross, Gergely Gortva, János Jakucs, Tibor Marton, Gábor Serlegi & Bence Vágvölgyi (all Budapest) Neolithic entry in southern Transdanubia: discovering the NEST of the earliest central European farming societies Detlef Gronenborn (Mainz) „Mesolithic-Neolithic Interactions“ reconsidered Thomas Saile (Regensburg) On the eastern branch of the Bandkeramik: chronology, settlement, contact Joachim Pechtl (Manching) The constant is change: LBK settlement dynamics in the upper Danube region Fabian Haack (Stuttgart) Ditched enclosures and ritualised violence in Herxheim and beyond Jörg Bofinger (Esslingen) Research on the LBK in the Upper Neckar region Raiko Krauß (Tübingen), Jörg Bofinger (Esslingen), Joachim Wahl (Konstanz) & Elena Marinova-Wolff (Hemmenhofen) LBK settlement in the Ammer River Valley – chronology, ecology and settlement dynamics 

LBK & Vinča Formation and Transformation of Early Neolithic Lifestyles in Europe in the second half of the 6th millennium BC Thursday, 21 March 2019 Keynote lecture at Ernst von Sieglin lecture hall, Schloss Hohentübingen (19.00) John Chapman (Durham) The Vinča group – (almost) 50 years on Reception (20.00) Friday, 22 March Fürstenzimmer, Schloss Hohentübingen (9.00) Opening: Raiko Krauß (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen) & Dirk Krausse (State Office for Preservation of Monuments, Esslingen) Session 1: Research History and Fundamental Issues Bernhard Weninger (Cologne) History of the Radiocarbon chronology of the Early Neolithic in central and southeastern Europe Penny Bickle (York) Investigating Neolithic social diversity from Bioarchaeology Coffee break (10.30-10.45) Daniela Hofmann (Bergen) Not going anywhere? Migration and mobility as social practices Ernst Pernicka (Mannheim) Development of metallurgy in Eurasia Canay Alpagut (Tübingen) The appearance of Notenkopf-like pottery decoration in Anatolia from the second half of the 6th mill. BC Lunch break (12.15-13.15) Johannes Müller (Kiel) Melting pots and networks: Different social approaches within LBK and Vinča? Session 2: Rising Complexity in the Balkan-Carpathian Region Barbara Horejs (Vienna) A southern perspective on the formation of early farming communities in the central Balkans Kamen Boyadzhiev (Sofia) The transition to the Late Neolithic in the Upper Thracian Plain (Southern Bulgaria) Coffee break (14.45-15.00) Petăr Zidarov (Sofia) Social dynamics and structural variations in the Neolithic settlement patterns in Bulgaria during the late sixth and early fifth millennia BC Lennart Brandtstätter (Tübingen) 14 C-Chronology of Middle and Late Neolithic settlements in the Eastern Balkan Robert Hofmann & Nils Müller-Scheeßel (Kiel) Orientation of Neolithic Dwellings in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin – Common cosmological concept or environmental/regional adaptation? Tea time (16.30-16.45) Session 3: The Vinča world Marko Porčić (Belgrade) Archaeology of the Vinča culture: formation, demography, and social structure Silvia Amicone (Tübingen) Vinča Culture Ceramics: A Technological Approach Nenad Tasić (Belgrade) What a handle can handle? (Some examples of ergonomic principles in pottery production at Vinča-Belo Brdo) Tea time (18.15-18.30) Dragoş Diaconescu (Timişoara) The early Vinča culture in Transylvania. Considerations regarding its chronological position, from the perspective of correspondence analysis Dušan Borić (New York) Society against the state: Axe and sickle men, enclosures, and violence in the Vinča world Wolfram Schier (Berlin) Culture change on a micro-scale - site biography and cultural identity at Uivar (Romania) Conference Dinner (21.00) Saturday, 23 March Fürstenzimmer, Schloss Hohentübingen (9.00) Marcel Burić (Zagreb) Hephaistos‘ Wisdom: Firing Technologies of the Late Neolithic Southeast Europe (tell site Bapska, Croatia) Katarina Botić (Zagreb) Middle Neolithic transformation: Starčevo–LBK–Vinča meeting point and the emergence of Ražište style in Drava river valley Session 4: Between the two worlds János Jakucs (Budapest) Coalescence of Vinča and LBK in southeast Transdanubia: A view from the south Coffee break (10.30-10.45) Tibor Marton, Gergely Gortva & Krisztián Oross (all Budapest) Variations of material culture on the Transdanubian fringes of the LBK and their relations to the Vinča universe: a view from the north Krisztián Oross, Gergely Gortva, János Jakucs, Tibor Marton, Gábor Serlegi & Bence Vágvölgyi (all Budapest) Neolithic entry in southern Transdanubia: discovering the NEST of the earliest central European farming societies Detlef Gronenborn (Mainz) „Mesolithic-Neolithic Interactions“ reconsidered Lunch break (12.15-13.15) Elena Marinova, Elske Fischer, Tanja Märkle, Oliver Nelle & Manfred Rösch (all Hemmenhofen) Common elements of the plant economy of Vinča and LBK? Archaeobotanical case studies from the Danube catchments in SE Europe and Germany Miroslav Marić & Neda Mirković Marić (Subotica) The Tisza divide. The missing late Neolithic transformation in the north Bačka region of Serbia Session 5: The LBK world Angela Kreuz (Wiesbaden), Péter Pomázi (Budapest), Anett Osztás (Budapest), Krisztián Oross (Budapest), Tibor Marton (Budapest), Jörg Petrasch (Tübingen), László Domboróczki (Budapest), Pál Raczky (Budapest), Eszter Bánffy (Frankfurt) Hungarian Neolithic crops and diet – signals for cultural decisions? Coffee break (14.45-15.00) Thomas Link (Esslingen) Longhouses and Tells. Comparing LBK and Vinča houses and settlements Harald Stäuble (Dresden) The Dawn of LBK-Houses revisited Christiane Frirdich (Hechingen) Stylistic Variation and statistics in Eythra. A reassessment of LBK typochronology Tea time (16.30-16.45) Jörg Petrasch (Tübingen) The settlement patterns of the Earliest Bandkeramik and the LBK in comparison Thomas Saile (Regensburg) On the eastern branch of the Bandkeramik: chronology, settlement, contact Joachim Pechtl (Manching) The constant is change: LBK settlement dynamics in the upper Danube region Tea time (18.15-18.30) Fabian Haack (Stuttgart) Ditched enclosures and ritualised violence in Herxheim and beyond Jörg Bofinger (Esslingen) Research on the LBK in the Upper Neckar region Raiko Krauß (Tübingen) / Jörg Bofinger (Esslingen) / Joachim Wahl (Konstanz) / Elena Marinova-Wolff (Hemmenhofen) LBK settlement in the Ammer River Valley – chronology, ecology and settlement dynamics Closing the conference (~20.00) Supporting program Temporary Exhibition ‘Steinzeitdorf und Keltengold’, Museum ‘Ancient Cultures’ 15 March - 28 April 2019; formal opening 14 March, 19.00, Schlosskapelle Poster session “Neolithic sites in the upper Neckar region”, 22-23 March 2019, Fürstenzimmer From 18 March to 13 April 2019 the current excavation at the LBK settlement of AmmerbuchPfäffingen “Lüsse” can be visited. Contact: [email protected]