2022

abstrakt

angielski

EN Obviously, food is essential to survive and as an economic capital it can be converted into a symbolic one, augmenting prestige, authority and status. The other way round, prestige and status can also be converted into economic capital thanks to advantages in access to resources and networking they provide. Subsistence and food production are crucial elements of societal activity, with the balance of costs and yields determining the range of possible economic strategies allowing a community to avoid crisis. Changing a strategy permit a community to adapt to changes in ecological or/and cultural (social or ideological) environment. In the Middle/Late Bronze Age southern Lesser Poland we can notice the implementation of new land-use strategies (e.g. increase in the popularity of broomcorn millet) and food storage techniques. These new elements appear parallel with the demographic growth and stabilisation of settlement structures, which become evident from the turn of the Late Bronze Age onwards. In our presentation we use the available archaeological and archaeobotanical record to investigate food supply strategies among Bronze Age communities of Lesser Poland. Furthermore, we ask whether the food supply strategies introduced during that period reflect increased levels of cooperation, and did they eventually triggered social inequality. In order to do so, we analyse these strategies and the scale of social differentiation in the Late Bronze Age against models proposed for Early Neolithic, traditionally viewed as egalitarian, and those used to describe more complex Eneolithic societies.

710 - 710

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28th EAA Annual Meeting (Budapest, Hungary, 2022). Abstract Book