The Rise & Fall of Europe's First Longhouse Builders - European Prehistory

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/89ne30pZpDm 7000 years ago the rivers of central Europe were lined with timber long houses. The builders of these spread rapidly across the continent before declining in dramatic fashion. What can archaeology tell us about the causes behind this expansion and contraction? The Great Courses Plus: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/Stefan The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US, UK and Australian market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally. Support my channel:   / stefanmilo   Disclaimer: Use my videos as a rough guide to a topic. I am not an expert, I may get things wrong. This is why I always post my sources so you can critique my work and verify things for yourselves. Of course I aim to be as accurate as possible which is why you will only find reputable sources in my videos. Secondly, information is always subject to changes as new information is uncovered by archaeologists. Thumbnail by Ettore Mazza:   / ettore.mazza   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.stefanmilo.com www.twitter.com/Historysmilo www.instagram.com/historysmilo ---------------------------- Sources: 1. “Chapter 4: The Spread of Farming into Central Europe.” The First Farmers of Europe an Evolutionary Perspective, by Stephen Shennan, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 79–105. 2. Last, Jonathan. “Longhouse Lifestyles In The Central European Neolithic.” The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, by Chris Fowler et al., Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 273–289. 3. Bentley, R. A., et al. “Community Differentiation and Kinship among Europe's First Farmers.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, no. 24, 2012, pp. 9326–9330., doi:10.1073/pnas.1113710109. 4. Meyer, Christian, et al. “The Massacre Mass Grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten Reveals New Insights into Collective Violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 36, 2015, pp. 11217–11222., doi:10.1073/pnas.1504365112. 5. Boulestin, Bruno, et al. “Mass Cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture at Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany).” Antiquity, vol. 83, no. 322, 2009, pp. 968–982., doi:10.1017/s0003598x00099282. 6. Bramanti, B., et al. “Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers.” Science, vol. 326, no. 5949, 2009, pp. 137–140., doi:10.1126/science.1176869.