@article{1408926,
      recid = {1408926},
      author = {Furholt, M. and Cheben, I. and Müller, J. | Bistáková.},
      title = {Archaeology in the Žitava Valley I : The LBK and  Želiezovce Settlement Site of Vráble.},
      pages = {1 online resource (546 pages).},
      abstract = {The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is  among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central  Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian  area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses,  grouped into three contemporary neighbourhoods, one of  which is delineated by a complex ditched enclosure system.  This enclosure is associated with a large number of human  remains, which reveal new patterns of burial and deposition  practices. This volume presents the first part of the  results of an international research project that was  started in 2012 and aims to explore the social implications  of settlement concentration in the context of early farming  communities, on the background of subsistence patterns and  landscape use.This is the first volume of "Archaeology in  the Žitava valley", and it presents the finds, features and  data uncovered and synthesised from our archaeological,  pedological, geophysical, archaeobotanical,  anthropological, zoo-archaeological and stable isotope  studies on the site of Vráble "Veľké Lehemby" and "Fárske"  in southwest Slovakia. These data are used to reconstruct  the social and economic patterns and social processes,  highlighting a growing tension between incentives of  cooperation and sharing vs. monopolisation of resources and  individual interests, driving the 300-year history of this  site until its total abandonment. While the history of  Vráble is unique, it holds clues for a better understanding  of the overall, central European phenomenon of large,  enclosed settlements of the later LBK, their association  with rituals and violence involving human bodies, and the  end of the LBK social world.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1408926},
}