Rural Economy in the Early Iron Age

This volume presents data and analysis on settlement structure, subsistence patterns, manufacturing, and trade from the Peabody Museum's four seasons of excavation at Hascerkeller, Bavaria, a typical Central European agricultural community at the start of the final millennium B.C.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Economic Change in Complex Societies: The Case of Central Europe Changes in the Final Millennium B.C
The Excavations at Hascherkeller
Hascherkeller and Environs Geology
Topography Soils
Vegetation Modern Economy
The Site
The Excavations at Hascherkeller from 1978 to 1981: Techniques, Progress, and Results Excavation Techniques
The Course of Excavation
The Results of Excavation Cultural Materials Recovered
The Radiocarbon Dates
The Magnetometer Surveyby Helmut Becker
The Plant Remains
Collection Analysis
Conclusion
The Faunal Remains
Species Present Age at Death Distribution of Bone
Summary
Pottery: An Examination of the Temper
Classification and Analysis
Pottery Distribution on the Settlement
The Daub
Sorting Measurements
The Iron Slag
Depositional History of the Settlement Chronology of Settlement Features
Deposition During the Occupation of the Settlement
Post-depositional Changes on the Site
The Community at Hascherkeller: Interpretations and Hypotheses Chronology
Environment Settlement
Structure Economic Activity at Hascherkeller Social Organization Daily Life
Hascherkeller and Central Europe: Formation of Commercial Towns in the Early Iron
Age Haseherkeller and Other Communities Economic
Change in Late Bronze Age Central
Europe Formation of Commercial Towns in the Early Iron
Age The Evidence from Hascherkeller
References
Cited Concordance for Figures
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