The Hascherkeller rectangular farmstead and its implications for Hallstatt social complexity

• Autores: Thomas Saile, Florian Reitmaier, Martin Posselt, Isabella Denk
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 99, Nº 403, 2025, págs. 170-186
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Enclosed rectangular farmsteads from the Hallstatt period in Central Europe are often cast as the seats of high-status farmers, whose land and social standing could be inherited and consolidated. Excavations at Landshut-Hascherkeller in Bavaria reveal the developmental trajectory of one such site through the stratigraphic disentanglement of its numerous ditches. Here, the authors argue that the coalescence of two rectangular farmsteads into a larger settlement complex at Hascherkeller reflects the union of neighbouring families and the resultant massing of status. The article situates this process in a segmented social system that counterpoints the typified Hallstatt hierarchy, suggesting that two social structures coexisted in the Hallstatt culture.