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Pontic-Caspian Neolithic cultures
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forager economy, harsh steppe environment, settlements found near river valleys
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Bug-Dniester Culture
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mainly a foraging economy, began to adopt animal domestication & agriculture from Criş people (who bordered them)
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Why transition to agriculture?
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dwindling resources, status, stability, ability to give away=power
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Criş Culture
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the first people to use agriculture, some use of metal, no cemeteries
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Dnieper-Donets (DDI) Culture
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no domesticated animals, large cemeteries
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Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture
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large villages, fine pottery, advanced copper use, skulls of domesticated cattle: one buried under each house
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Dnieper-Donets II Culture
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began domesticating animals, connection with CT, open fires, imported pottery, elaborate funeral rituals
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Khvalynsk Culture
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use of copper, animal sacrifices, only men buried
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When did Old Europe collapse?
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4000-3800BC
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Why did Old Europe collapse?
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climate change, overpopulation, soil erosion, warfare (steppe peoples? places were burned, some sites heavily fortified)
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Sredni-Stog Culture
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speakers of early Proto-Indo-European! distinctive posturing of the dead: on the back with kneesraised and oriented toward the northeast, mixed population, strongly agro-pastoral
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Suvorovo-Novodanilovka Incursion
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cattle raiders with domesticated horses, Possibly an elite sector of the Sredni-Stog culture, who consolidated
status through cattle-wealth in times of crop failure, alliance building through feast- and gift-giving, pre-anatolian speakers? |
