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Internationale Archäologie [ISSN 0939-0561X] Edited by Claus Dobiat and Klaus Leidorf

[ IA 53 ]

The Earlier Neolithic in the Western Kraichgau.

Birgit Heide

Hardcover

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The loess landscape of the Kraichgau region has produced rich stray finds of the Linear Pottery which are now throughly published and investigated for the first time. The pottery analysis is based on technology [lime tempering, black coating of animal fat], vessel shapes, and ornamental characteristics of rims and bands, and defines 8 stylistic phases. They last from the end of the oldest Linear Pottery until the youngest Linear Pottery with the highest density during the middle Linear Pottery. The pottery shows connections to Württemberg, from where the Kraichgau was first settled, and to Alsace, to where the Kraichgau Linear Pottery spread. Foreign types attest contacts with the Limburg and Paris areas, while an interaction with the subsequent Hinkelstein Group cannot be proven. The silices indicate a supply of raw material deteriorating towards the west and based on semi and end products from the Swabian Mountains, rarely also on river gravels, western European flint and tabular chert. Rock implements came from the Black Forrest, Odenwald and Stromberg Mountains. A settlement analysis is hindered by severe erosion, the absence of house plans, stratigraphies and burials.

Content:	278 pages, 124 illustrations, 13 maps, 2 plans, 176 plates		Cover:	Hardcover
Text:	German		Size:	21,0 x 29,7 cm / DIN A4
Abstracts in other languages:	English, French		weight:	1.630 g
Keywords:	Danubian culture		Series:	Internationale Archäologie
			ISSN:	0939-0561X
Ph D thesis	Universität Mainz, 1997		ISBN-13:	978-3-89646-325-8
			ISBN-10:	3-89646-325-X
			Place of Publication:	Rahden/Westf.
Price:	74,50 € (fPr)		Date of Publication:	2001