scholarly journals Transformations in East-Central Europe from 6000 to 3000 BC: local vs. foreign patterns

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Local Development ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Over Time

In the sixth, fifth and fourth millennium BC, in the basins of the Vistula and the Oder, extremely complex economic, social and ideological transformations took place. They consisted in the emergence and expansion of new systems of circulating information (‘communicative communities’). The majority of these were connected with the Neolithic. The process involved a constant clash between foreign and local patterns. The latter, over time, prevailed. Hence the ultimate dominance of Neolithic communicative communities in the eastern part of Central Europe around the middle of the fourth millennium was essentially a local development. Nonetheless, a considerable portion of the territory continued to remain outside their influence. Therefore, throughout the three millennia, Mesolithic communicative communities not only gradually merged with or evolved into Neolithic ones. They also embraced such transformations, mainly concerning the material culture and ideology, which were completely independent from the advances of the Neolithic, or could have been competitive in relation to them.

scholarly journals The Emergence of East Central Europe in a Welfare Regime Typology

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Ágnes Orosz
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
State Regime ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Over Time

The paper contributes to the welfare state regime literature by assessing the existence of the East-Central European welfare state regime. The article empirically tests whether East-Central European countries constitute a distinct welfare regime or they can be classified into existing regimes by using hierarchical cluster analysis. The paper defines clusters for two distinct time periods, in order to shed light on the changes over time. The research provides two substantive contributions. First, welfare states in East-Central Europe constitute a distinct welfare state regime only for the period of 2014-2016, and they might be subdivided into two groups: (1) Visegrad countries and (2) Balkan and Baltic countries together. Second, countries within the East-Central European welfare regime has become more similar over time.

The Archaeology of the Northwestern Slavs (Seventh To Ninth Centuries)

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Sebastian Brather
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Situation

AbstractTwenty years ago things seemed to be quite clear: several different groups of Slavs had invaded East Central Europe at some point during the sixth century, and all archaeologically identifiable, cultural characteristics pointed to a Slavic 'homeland' in Eastern Europe. More recent research, however, has shown this to be a rather simplistic view of the past. This paper is intended as an overview of the current archaeological research on the early Middle Ages that is responsible for the radical change of view of the last decade or so. Dendrochronology, new approaches, and the critical assessment of the historiography of the problem contribute now to a different understanding. The material culture - pottery, hillforts, settlement features, burials - can now be explained in terms of the contemporary situation in East Central Europe, i. e., the consolidation of settlement patterns, economic structures, and society. Exactly what that means for the debate about the 'origins' of the western Slavs remains a matter of further research and discussion.

The reinvention of ‘civil society’: transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Agnes Gagyi ◽  
Mariya Ivancheva
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Local Development ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Status ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores how the notion of ‘civil society’ in East-Central Europe, and the discursive and organisational practices attached to the term, have been deployed in politics, and how this has affected how local development and empowerment are conceived and funded. In this respect, struggles over the meaning and practice of ‘civil society’ activism in the region speak to longstanding debates within the community development field relating to the role of state and market; the status, function, and relevance of professionalised organisations within communities; the relationship between political and economic freedoms; and the possibilities for meaningful transnational solidarity.

scholarly journals Hominin Footprints in Caves from Romanian Carpathians

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Daniel S. Veres ◽  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Apuseni Mountains ◽  
Homo Neanderthalensis ◽  
Romanian Carpathians ◽  
Western Romania ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe Romanian karst hosts numerous caves and shelters that over time provided remarkable archaeological and anthropological vestiges. Altogether they show that humans must have entered caves in Romania at least as early as 170,000 years ago. However, ancient human footprints are very rare in the fossil record of East-Central Europe, with only two known locations in the Apuseni Mountains of western Romania. Vârtop Cave site originally preserved three fossil footprints made about 67,800 years ago by a Homo neanderthalensis, whereas Ciur Izbuc Cave was probably home of early H. sapiens that left almost 400 footprints (interspersed with spoors of cave bears), which were indirectly dated to be younger than ~36,500 years.

scholarly journals power of path dependence? State capacity and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition

Competitio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Adam
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Over Time

The paper examines development of state capacities and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition, and attempts to establish a relation between state characteristics and trajectories of economic transformation, especially with regard to privatisation and FDI. The assertion is that the quality of state capacities and the degree of state autonomy, although changing over time, mutually reinforces the formulating of economic policies, and hence in structural transformation. Thus, state characteristics are important determinants of transition outcome, but are themselves affected by structural economic changes.

Considering the Sub-Regional Cooperation in East-Central Europe – Some Conclusions on Integrating and Disintegrating Tendencies in the Sub-Regional Dialogue

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Wieclawski
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
Regional Interests ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
East Central European

This article discusses the problems of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe. It formulates the general conclusions and examines the specific case of the Visegrad Group as the most advanced example of this cooperation. The article identifies the integrating and disintegrating tendencies that have so far accompanied the sub-regional dialogue in East-Central Europe. Yet it claims that the disintegrating impulses prevail over the integrating impulses. EastCentral Europe remains diversified and it has not developed a single platform of the sub-regional dialogue. The common experience of the communist period gives way to the growing difference of the sub-regional interests and the ability of the East-Central European members to coordinate their positions in the European Union is limited. The Visegrad Group is no exception in this regard despite its rich agenda of social and cultural contacts. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict confirms a deep divergence of interests among the Visegrad states that seems more important for the future of the Visegrad cooperation than the recent attempts to mark the Visegrad unity in the European refugee crisis. Finally, the Ukrainian crisis and the strengthening of the NATO’s “Eastern flank” may contribute to some new ideas of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe, to include the Polish-Baltic rapprochement or the closer dialogue between Poland and Romania. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v10i1.251  

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