Place and identity: networks of Neolithic communities in Central Europe

The multi-layered and multi-scalar nature of the term ‘community’ makes it a useful tool for both particularistic studies and cross-cultural comparisons, connecting scales of community to regional scales of settlement, exchange and mobility. This paper explores three general themes of community: community as place, as identity and as network. A case study of Neolithic communities in eastern Hungary and Lower Austria demonstrates a spatial and geoarchaeological approach to understanding the relational aspects of places, networks and identity to develop a social archaeology of communities.Večplasten in večnivojski izraz ‘skupnost’ predstavlja uporabno orodje tako za partikularistične študije kot za medkulturne primerjave, saj povezuje obseg skupnosti z regionalnimi poselitvenimi vzorci, menjavo in mobilnostjo. V članku proučujemo tri glavne teme: skupnost kot kraj, skupnost kot identiteto in skupnost kot omrežje. S študijskim primerom neolitskih skupnosti na območju vzhodne Madžarske in Spodnje Avstrijske bomo prikazali vidike odnosov krajev, omrežij in identitet ter razvili družbeno arheologijo skupnosti