Ranks to Riches, Bust to Posh: Modelling Wealth and Inequality in the Czech Corded Ware Culture
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Ranks to Riches, Bust to Posh : Modelling Wealth and Inequality in the Czech Corded Ware Culture. / Nørtoft, Mikkel.
University of Copenhagen, 2024. 385 s.Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Ph.d.-afhandling › Forskning
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Ranks to Riches, Bust to Posh
T2 - Modelling Wealth and Inequality in the Czech Corded Ware Culture
AU - Nørtoft, Mikkel
N1 - Unpublished PhD thesis (article-based)
PY - 2024/5/16
Y1 - 2024/5/16
N2 - This thesis takes a quantitative perspective on grave wealth and inequality in the Czech Corded Wareculture (CWC, c. 2900-2200 BCE). For this purpose, I developed a new framework (in article 1) forquantification of grave wealth, named QuantWealth. I use this framework in article 3 to show howinstitutionalised (or “persistent”) inequality, shown through grave wealth in child graves, graduallyincreased during the CWC in both Bohemia and Moravia as resource networks expanded. In article 2,I give an update on social models for migrations from the Pontic steppe and the formation of theCWC and investigate the role of dogtooth and shell ornaments as female prestige items, while alsocritically assessing the archaeological evidence for the hypothesis of a dog and wolf cult amongyoung male migrant warriors in the Corded Ware culture.
AB - This thesis takes a quantitative perspective on grave wealth and inequality in the Czech Corded Wareculture (CWC, c. 2900-2200 BCE). For this purpose, I developed a new framework (in article 1) forquantification of grave wealth, named QuantWealth. I use this framework in article 3 to show howinstitutionalised (or “persistent”) inequality, shown through grave wealth in child graves, graduallyincreased during the CWC in both Bohemia and Moravia as resource networks expanded. In article 2,I give an update on social models for migrations from the Pontic steppe and the formation of theCWC and investigate the role of dogtooth and shell ornaments as female prestige items, while alsocritically assessing the archaeological evidence for the hypothesis of a dog and wolf cult amongyoung male migrant warriors in the Corded Ware culture.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - grave wealth
KW - inequality
KW - quantitative analysis
KW - migration
KW - Corded Ware Culture
KW - Copper age
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Ranks to Riches, Bust to Posh
CY - University of Copenhagen
ER -
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