Giving it all away. Structured depositon in the Neolithic

So-called structured deposits are an important part of Neolithic ritual activity. However, their study typically runs into problems of definition, as well as debates surrounding interpretation. As a result, deposits are well studied in some research traditions and time periods (e.g. Neolithic Britain or southern Scandinavia, the Bronze Age), but much less well known in others. In this lecture, I use the case studies of the Linearbandkeramik and the Younger Neolithic of Bavaria to argue that deposition played a central role in how societies negotiated their place in the world, but also in political action.