The Early Neolithic site Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria)

Abstract

This chapter provides a summary of the large human bone assemblage discovered at the Early Neolithic (Linear Pottery Culture, or LBK) site of Asparn/Schletz, Lower Austria. The bones were characterized by numerous lethal injuries suggesting that the site suffered a large-scale attack. Most intriguing is the dearth of young adult women in an otherwise catastrophic profile, with subadult and adults in proportions similar to those expected in a living population. This has been interpreted as the taking of young women as captives, a practice well attested in the ethnographic literature of small-scale societies.

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