Serial Learners

1 Beakers, Plagues, and Battle Axes
1.1 A Very Short Introduction to the Third Millennium BCE
1.2 Three Answers, One Problem
1.3 Migration: A Link Between Scales
1.4 Thinking with Ceramics
1.5 Research Question and Study Area
1.6 The Third Millennium BCE: A Matter of Concern
1.7 Outlook

2 Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware Communities Co-existed
2.1 The Age of Ceramics
2.2 Rise and Fall
2.3 Re-examining the Absolute Chronology of the Third Millennium BCE
2.4 Funnel Beaker West Chronology: What Can We Know?
2.5 Funnel Beaker West in the Third Millennium BCE
2.6 Overview

3 An Archaeology of Learning
3.1 Beyond Group Detection
3.2 From Sherds to Learning
3.3 Overview

4 A Probabilistic Analysis of Ceramic Technology
4.1 The Chaîne Opératoire as a Network
4.2 The Total Chaîne Opératoire as a Probability Space
4.3 Final Considerations: Why Go Probabilistic?

5 Sample Design
5.1 Sampling Strategy
5.2 Analytical Techniques
5.3 Selected Vessels and Samples
5.4 Overview

6 Funnel Beaker West Ceramic Technology
6.1 Prior Studies
6.2 Specific Chaînes Opératoires in the Funnel Beaker West Body of Knowledge
6.3 Summary

7 Corded Ware Ceramic Technology
7.1 Previous Studies
7.2 Specific Chaînes Opératoires in the Corded Ware Body of Knowledge
7.3 Summary

8 Petrography of Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware Vessels
8.1 Fabric Groups
8.2 Traces of Techniques
8.3 Provenance
8.4 Final Remarks

9 Abductive Comparison of Specific Chaînes Opératoires
9.1 Abductive Comparison
9.2 Are There Specialised Production Methods?
9.3 Discussion and Conclusion

10 Probabilistic Comparison of Specific Chaînes Opératoires
10.1 Probabilistic Comparison of Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware
10.2 Expanding the Scope of the Comparisons
10.3 Summary

11 On the Origins of Neolithic Ceramic Technology
11.1 The Roots of Middle and Late Neolithic Ceramic Technology
11.2 Final Remarks

12 Here to Stay: Indigenous Communities in the 3rd Millennium BCE
12.1 Reports of Funnel Beaker Wests’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
12.2 Learning Prevails
12.3 Revising the Neolithic of Northwest Europe

13 Eager for Knowledge: Migrants in the Third Millennium BCE
13.1 Migrants Learned from Indigenous Communities…
13.2 …On More than One Occasion
13.3 Concluding Remarks

14 Conclusion
14.1 Setting the Stage
14.2 Business as Usual
14.3 Serial Learners
14.4 History of Knowledge: A New Synthesis

Bibliography
Appendices
Nederlandstalige Samenvatting
English Summary