Gronenborn, Detlef
Faszination Jungsteinzeit
The Neolithic (Greek: neo = new, lithos = stone) represents a major period of change in the history of humankind: for the first time humans take their destiny into their own hands economically, cultivate plants and breed animals. Thus societies acquire a certain independence from the natural environment. Agriculture is also combined with a sedentary way of life. Although some hunter-gatherer groups had already lived permanently in one place in particularly favourable ecosystems, it was farming that made it possible to establish villages with long-term habitation in less favourable landscapes.
Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period
The concept of »transformation« or simply »reshaping« contains the elements of what remains, the conservative, the kernel of what continues, as well as the elements of what changes, the innovative. In the framework of this publication of articles from a conference in 2016 on »Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period«, we draw attention to this dichotomy and investigate the social dynamics behind changes in urban and rural life in the Byzantine period that can be detected by archaeology, history and art history.
The Byzantine Empire is an ideal subject for studying how social transformation proceeds, what triggers transformation, what factors underlie it and what the processes involved are. Who were the agents of transformation and how did they and their environment change? How flexible were the state or its citizens in handling external and internal pressures of innovation? In what manner and to what extent were the Byzantines able to preserve their identity and the internal cohesion of their empire in the course of these processes of adaptation?
Zeit-Räume: Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Taute
Zeit-Räume: Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Taute