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[ Hilzingen ] The Linear Pottery settlement of Hilzingen "Forsterbahnried" and the Early Neolithic occupation of the Hegau region. Barbara Fritsch

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Part of the Linear Pottery settlement of Hilzingen [ca. 5300-4800 B.C.] in SW-Germany [Baden-Württemberg] was excavated by the author in 1985. The investigation revealed 15 houses in the north-eastern sector, while the centre and the west were covered by pits. The coarse and fine pottery was decorated according to 38 linear [=body] ornament types and 26 rim decoration types. For the stone tools [adzes, axes, hammerstones, quernstones, rubbers, grindstones] the raw material was selected with regard to the specific function. Bone and antler tools were made to nine different classes [points, chisels, pressure flakers, knives, spatulas, sticks, 2 types of mattocks, retouchers] applied in textile, leather and soil working. Jewellery is attested in the shape of bone pendants, clay and stone bracelets. Spindle-whorls tell of local textile production. The pottery seriation allows a subdivision into nine stylistic phases and, together with the stratigraphy, a relative chronology of the different features was possible. Different tempering implies that each house-hold produced their own pottery. At the end of the settlement a change towards the Hinkelstein and Stroke-Ornamented Pottery groups occurred.

Content:	298 pages, 121 illustrations, 45 tables, 63 plates		Cover:	Hardcover
Text:	German		Size:	21,0 x 29,7 cm / DIN A4
Abstracts in other languages:	English, French		weight:	1.380 g
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Ph D thesis	Universität Freiburg/Breisgau 1998		ISBN-13:	978-3-89646-007-3
			ISBN-10:	3-89646-007-2
			Place of Publication:	Rahden/Westf.
Price:	66,50 € (fPr)		Date of Publication:	1998