Putting earthen long barrows back on map:remarks about the Middle Neolithic monumentality of northern Poland

Since 2006, systematic research has been carried out in central part of the Greater Poland region to find the remains of the earthen long barrows left behind by the societies of the Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture. They are known as Kuyavian barrows because of their frequent presence in the Kuyavia region in central Poland. In the Greater Poland region they were known from antiquarian records dating back to the 19th century. However, contemporary surveys carried out in open arable fields did not bring positive results. It is likely that the enclosing erratic boulders were removed at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by farmers, and the mounds quickly destroyed as a result of ploughing and erosion. A breakthrough in the search for such barrows in Poland was the introduction of the airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey and the public disclosure of the Airborn Laser Scanning (ALS) data collected by the governmental institutions for the purpose of natural disasters modelling. It resulted in the discovery of numerous archaeological sites, including earthen long barrows, preserved in woodlands.The article discusses the results of previous archaeological research and archive material surveys, as well as some selected case studies of the newly discovered clusters of earthen long barrows on the Szamotuły Plain in the central part of the Greater Poland region, and on the Kleczew Plain in the eastern part of the region, neighbouring with Kuyavia. The shortcomings of using ALS data in archaeology, and limitations of woodland and fieldwalking surveys, are also reviewed. In conclusion, we argue that the number of earthen long barrows suggest that the construction of them, and the practice of burying the dead in them, was a common practice of the Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker societies in northern Poland

Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

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Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age

The demographic history of East-Central Europe after the Neolithic period remains poorly explored, despite this region being on the confluence of various ecological zones and cultural entities. Here, the descendants of societies associated with steppe pastoralists form Early Bronze Age were followed by Middle Bronze Age populations displaying unique characteristics. Particularly, the predominance of collective burials, the scale of which, was previously seen only in the Neolithic. The extent to which this re-emergence of older traditions is a result of genetic shift or social changes in the MBA is a subject of debate. Here by analysing 91 newly generated genomes from Bronze Age individuals from present Poland and Ukraine, we discovered that Middle Bronze Age populations were formed by an additional admixture event involving a population with relatively high proportions of genetic component associated with European hunter-gatherers and that their social structure was based on, primarily patrilocal, multigenerational kin-groups. By analysing 91 Bronze Age genomes from East-Central Europe, the authors discovered that Middle Bronze Age populations were formed by an admixture event involving hunter-gatherers and that the social structure of resulting population was primarily patrilocal