Prehistoric Village Social Dynamics: The Early Copper Age in the Koros Region

This book explores the social dynamics of early village societies, focusing specifi cally on the transition from
the Neolithic to the Copper Age and the development of Early Copper Age village communities in the
Körös Region on the Great Hungarian Plain. In order to model how Copper Age villages evolved from their
Neolithic predecessors, diff erent theoretical and methodological perspectives were incorporated, and data
on settlement patterns and organization, mortuary customs, economy, and interaction were considered in a
diachronic framework and at multiple geographic scales. The model developed here contributes to a more
nuanced understanding of prehistoric socio-economic and cultural transformations in prehistoric Europe and
in other parts of the world.