scholarly journals New Chronological Frame for the Young Neolithic Baden Culture in Central Europe (4th Millennium BC)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2B) ◽  
pp. 1057-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Maria Wild ◽  
Peter Stadler ◽  
Mária Bondár ◽  
Susanne Draxler ◽  
Herwig Friesinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Data Set ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
East West ◽  
Age Determinations

The Baden Culture is a widely spread culture of the Young Neolithics in east-central Europe. In southeast Europe, several parallel cultures are found at different places. The main innovations in east-central Europe associated with the Baden Culture were traditionally thought to originate in southeast Europe, Anatolia, and the Levant. However, in recent years, doubt about this theory has arisen among archaeologists.Here, we try to contribute to this question by increasing the radiocarbon data set available for the Baden Culture. Thirty-two age determinations of samples from different sites assigned to the Baden Culture were performed by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C dating. The new data were combined with previously published 14C dates. Data from the individual cultural phases of the entire Baden period and the parallel cultures in southeast Europe (Sitagroi, Cernavoda, and Ezero) were analyzed by sum calibration. Comparison of the results indicates that the southeastern cultures cannot be synchronized with the Boleráz period, the early phase of the Baden Culture. It seems that these cultures were parallel to the Baden Classical period. This finding, which has to be verified by more data from the southeastern cultures, contradicts the theory of the east-west spreading of these cultures.

scholarly journals Long-term ice phenology records from East Central Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Takács ◽  
Zoltán Kern ◽  
László Pásztor
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Lake Balaton ◽  
Data Set ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Freshwater Ice ◽  
Break Up ◽  
Ice Phenology

Abstract. A data set of annual freshwater ice phenology was compiled for the largest river (Danube) and the largest lake (Lake Balaton) in East Central Europe, extending regular river and lake ice monitoring data through the use of historical observations and documentary records dating back to 1774 AD and 1885 AD, respectively. What becomes clear is that the dates of the first appearance of ice and freeze-up have shifted, arriving 12–30 and 4–13 days later respectively per 100 years. Break-up and ice-off have shifted to earlier dates by 7–13 and 9–27 days/100 years, except on Lake Balaton, where the date of break-up has not changed significantly. The data sets represent a great potential resource for (paleo)climatological research thanks to the strong, physically determined link between water and air temperature and the occurrence of freshwater ice phenomena. The derived centennial records of freshwater cryophenology for Danube and Balaton are readily available for detailed analysis of the temporal trends, large-scale spatial comparison or other climatological purposes. The derived dataset is publicly available via PANGAEA at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.881056.

scholarly journals Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe: Major Findings and Avenues for Future Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-347
Author(s):  
Astrid Lorenz ◽  
Lisa H. Anders
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Future Research ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This concluding chapter summarises central findings of the volume and discusses avenues for future research. It first presents the insights of the individual chapters and demonstrates for each part of the book how the chapters speak to each other. It then highlights selected key findings, discusses theoretical implications more generally and identifies questions and subject areas for future research.

Anti-gender politics in East-Central Europe: Right-wing defiance to West-Eurocentrism

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Eszter Kováts
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
East West ◽  
Visegrád Countries

Anti-gender actors in East-Central Europe (ECE) too claim that gender is an ideological colonization. In this article, in contrasting these accusations with actually existing power relations of the global and European gender architecture, I discuss whether they are – at least to some extent – based on social realities. Neither anti-gender campaigns nor the rise of illiberal forces are ECE phenomena per se and should not be treated as such. However, the relevance of the geopolitical embeddedness of gender equality policies, of gender studies and of feminist and LGBT politics needs to be analysed thoroughly in order to better understand the right-wing discourse. This paper offers a theoretical explanation, based on existing empirical studies and critical theoretical literature. Focussing on the four Visegrád countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, it attempts to demonstrate the specific drivers of the anti-gender mobilization in this region and argues that anti-gender discourse is a right-wing language of resistance against existing material and symbolic East-West inequalities in Europe.

Ezra Mendelsohn. The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi, 300.

2004 ◽  
pp. 379-382
Author(s):  
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
East Central ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Governmental Politics ◽  
Comparative Manner

This chapter looks at Ezra Mendelsohn's The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars (1983). The book is divided into chapters dedicated to the individual countries: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Lithuania, with a single chapter on Latvia and Estonia. This does not mean that it is a collection of separate studies that could equally well stand alone. To the book's great advantage, Mendelsohn often approaches his subject — Jewish communities in these countries, governmental politics, and patterns of change — in a comparative manner. As a result, and despite the initial impression, the book constitutes a logical whole and is thus all the more useful. The author's interest lies mainly in the area of specifically Jewish history.

scholarly journals Political mobilization in East Central Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Brunnbauer ◽  
Peter Haslinger
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Illiberal Democracy ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This article provides an introduction to the special thematic section on political mobilization in East Central Europe. Based on a brief presentation of the main arguments of the individual articles, the authors discuss the recent political volatility in East Central Europe. They highlight the tension between fierce political rhetoric and populist policies on the one hand, and low levels of voter turnout and overall political participation in the region on the other. The authors argue that recent cases of successful as well as unsuccessful political mobilization in East Central Europe point to structural re-alignments in the region's political landscape. In particular, the parties that are successful are those that manage to communicate their visions in new ways and whose messages resonate with nested attitudes and preferences of the electorate. These parties typically rally against the so-called establishment and claim for themselves an anti-hegemonic agenda. The introductory essay also asserts that these developments in East Central Europe deserve attention for their potential Europe-wide repercussions – especially the idea of “illiberal democracy,”which combines populist mobilization and autocratic demobilization and finds adherents also in more established European democracies.

Regionalism, Democracy and National Self-Determination in Central Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRENDAN KARCH
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Milan Kundera ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Democratic Stability ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
East West

The end of the Cold War and the accompanying easing of archival restrictions in former communist countries have created a veritable renaissance in historical literature on the region in the last two decades. The fall of the Iron Curtain has subsequently thrown into doubt the historiographical salience of a strict East–West divide and prompted the resurgence of analytic concepts such as Central Europe or East Central Europe. The former term, defined famously but imprecisely in the 1980s by Milan Kundera as those lands ‘culturally in the West and politically in the East’, has grown no easier to delimit with the march of European integration and democratic stability across most of the ‘central’ part of the continent. The latter term is, in some senses, less problematic, since the ‘East’ in East Central Europe is generally understood to exclude those areas in current-day Germany or Austria. Yet the region's eastern and southern borders are still much disputed.

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