Adaptation of settlement strategies to environmental conditions in southern Slovakia in the Neolithic and Eneolithic

• Published in: Documenta Praehistorica
• Main Authors: Tóth, Peter, Demján, Peter, Griačová, Kristina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2011
• Subjects: settlement strategies; climate fluctuations; Neolithic; Eneolithic; Central Europe; Slovakia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/38.24; https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.38.24

Environmental conditions such as climate, topography, and soil conditions had an impact on prehistoric settlement strategies. By studying changes in settlement structure in the Nitra, Hron and Ipel’ valleys in southern Slovakia over the course of the Neolithic and Eneolithic, preferences for various climatic and topographic environments in different periods can be seen. Besides cultural and socio-economic factors, it can also be expected that changes in climate contributed to change in settlement patterns. Climatic changes in Neolithic and Eneolithic have been identified and correlated with major changes in socio-economic structure, as well as with known climate fluctuations in the North Atlantic area. Na strategije poselitev v prazgodovini so vplivali okoljski pogoji, kot so klima, topografija in vrste tal. Z raziskavo sprememb v strukturi poselitev v dolinah Nitre, Hrona in Ipela na južnem Slovaškem v obdobju neolitika in eneolitika lahko opazujemo preference za različna klimatska in topografska okolja v različnih obdobjih. Poleg kulturnih in družbeno-ekonomskih faktorjev lahko pričakujemo, da so tudi spremembe v klimi prispevale k spremembam v vzorcu poselitve. Prepoznali smo klimatske spremembe v neolitiku in eneolitiku ter jih povezali z glavnimi spremembami v družbeno-ekonomskih strukturah, pa tudi z znanimi klimatskimi nihanji na področju severnega Atlantika.