Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture

Lasting from around 4800 to 4000 BCE, the Lengyel culture helped usher in the Copper Age in Central Europe with the rise of mining, craft production, and the trading of copper and obsidian, in addition to larger-scale farming. In Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture, the authors investigate the migration of the Lengyel people as they moved west from their place of origin in modern-day Hungary to areas in what is now the Czech Republic and Poland. By drawing on research into the trace elements of strontium, carbon, and nitrogen found in human bone tissue, as well paleopathological analyses of congenital defects, this book proves that the Lengyel migration occurred in waves, providing important details about the changes in the diet, health, and mobility of a people who were crucial to the development of early European civilization

Cu o durata cuprinsa intre 4800 si 4000 i.Hr., cultura Lengyel a ajutat la inaugurarea erei cuprului in Europa Centrala cu cresterea exploatarii miniere, a productiei mestesugaresti si a comertului cu cupru si obsidian, pe langa agricultura la scara mai mare. In Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture, autorii investigheaza migratia poporului Lengyel in timp ce se deplasau spre vest de la locul lor de origine in Ungaria moderna in zone din ceea ce este acum Republica Ceha si Polonia.