Straubing culture

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Straubing culture
Alternative namesStraubingen culture
Geographical range Southern Germany
Period Bronze Age
Datesc. 2150 — 1700/1500 BC
Preceded by Bell Beaker culture
Followed by Tumulus culture
Archaeological cultures in Central Europe at the end of the III millennium and beginning of the II millennium BC. The Straubing Culture is shown in purple (7) Central Europe Reinecke BA1.png
Archaeological cultures in Central Europe at the end of the III millennium and beginning of the II millennium BC. The Straubing Culture is shown in purple (7)

The Straubing culture (or Straubingen culture) is the name for a Bronze Age culture which spread primarily in the territory of modern-day Lower Bavaria and Upper Austria between the 22nd to 16th centuries BC.

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The Straubingen culture was part of the Northern Alpine EBA, which is classified as the western-most part of the Danubian EBA which was extended from the Rhine Valley in the west to Upper Austria in the East. [1] It was recognized as an autonomous culture by Karl Schumacher in 1917.

Characteristics

Economy

The economy was sustained mainly by agriculture and the herding of diverse animal species. Important was also the metallurgic sector.

Dwellings

Hamlets constituted by one or two long-houses placed west of their graveyards. The houses were made of wood, with a North-South orientation; basically were longhouses composed by one or two naves.

Burials

The burial practices continued the Bell Beaker Culture rites involving sex-differentiated body positioning in a crouched position as with the orientation of the tomb. Some objects found with buried individuals were bronze daggers, bracelets, and even objects made of amber.

Genetic profile

Y-DNA analysis with enough genetic coverage was obtained from 21 male individuals buried in the Lech valley, five sampled individuals had derived alleles placing them on the lineage spanning R1b-M269 to R1b-L11/P310, but were not covered at P312/S116; 15 sampled males had the subvariant R1b-P312/S116* (with no more derived alleles further downstream called). There was only a male from the I clade. The autosomal composition detected was ~13% Western HG, ~47% Anatolian farmer, ~38% Yamnaya. [1]


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  1. 1 2 Mittnik, Alissa; Massy, Ken; Knipper, Corina; Wittenborn, Fabian; Friedrich, Ronny; Pfrengle, Saskia; Burri, Marta; Carlichi-Witjes, Nadine; Deeg, Heidi; Furtwängler, Anja; Harbeck, Michaela; von Heyking, Kristin; Kociumaka, Catharina; Kucukkalipci, Isil; Lindauer, Susanne; Metz, Stephanie; Staskiewicz, Anja; Thiel, Andreas; Wahl, Joachim; Haak, Wolfgang; Pernicka, Ernst; Schiffels, Stephan; Stockhammer, Philipp W.; Krause, Johannes (8 November 2019). "Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe". Science. 366 (6466): 731–734. doi: 10.1126/science.aax6219 .

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