Fantastic roundup! The Brusselstown Ring discovery really flips our understanding of protourbanziation timelines in northern Europe. Pushing back nucleated settlement patterns by 500 years isnt just a date change, it means we gotta rethink trade networks and social organization at that scale way earlier than we thought. I've always wonderd how these large prehistoric settlements managed resource allocation without the bureaucratic systems we see later.
It is really interesting as you say for the questions it raises. I was also intrigued by one report where a scholar said it dispelled an idea that it was the vikings who brought the idea of large settlements to Ireland!
Fantastic roundup! The Brusselstown Ring discovery really flips our understanding of protourbanziation timelines in northern Europe. Pushing back nucleated settlement patterns by 500 years isnt just a date change, it means we gotta rethink trade networks and social organization at that scale way earlier than we thought. I've always wonderd how these large prehistoric settlements managed resource allocation without the bureaucratic systems we see later.
It is really interesting as you say for the questions it raises. I was also intrigued by one report where a scholar said it dispelled an idea that it was the vikings who brought the idea of large settlements to Ireland!