TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-Linear Pottery cultural boundary and repopulation of the German Rhineland
T2 - Revisiting the Western contacts hypothesis
AU - Denis, Solène
AU - Gjesfeld, Erik
AU - Moreau, Luc
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Wagemann foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in partnership with the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for granting post-doctoral funding to one of us (S.D.), enabling us to study the post-Linear Pottery material from the sites of the Aldenhoven Plateau. L.M. gratefully acknowledges support from an EC H2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Grant (PALMOBI project, Grant No. 654927).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Wagemann foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in partnership with the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for granting post-doctoral funding to one of us (S.D.), enabling us to study the post-Linear Pottery material from the sites of the Aldenhoven Plateau. L.M. gratefully acknowledges support from an EC H2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Grant (PALMOBI project, Grant No. 654927 ).
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PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - The lack of consensus surrounding the macroscopic determination of high-quality black flint discovered at the Aldenhoven Plateau sites (Rhineland, North-Western Germany) from the beginning of the Middle Neolithic has far-reaching consequences for the anthropological understanding of the socio-cultural dynamics involved in the neolithization of North-Western Europe. This flint has been assigned to Western Belgian ‘Obourg’ flint type and is used as a key indicator of strong links between populations from West Belgium (Mons Basin) and the German Rhineland at the beginning of the 5th millennium BC. Here, we present an integrated study of this flint using geochemical and lithic technological approaches. This work rules out attribution of the analysed flint artefacts to the Upper Cretaceous flint sources of the Mons Basin; however, the exact origin of the black flint used in the Rhineland remains unanswered. Our results do not support the hypothesis of intensive contact between populations from West Belgium and the German Rhineland and highlights the urgent need for further combined petrographic and geochemical analyses in the region, particularly on geological samples, in order to build up an extensive and reliable comparative reference collection.
AB - The lack of consensus surrounding the macroscopic determination of high-quality black flint discovered at the Aldenhoven Plateau sites (Rhineland, North-Western Germany) from the beginning of the Middle Neolithic has far-reaching consequences for the anthropological understanding of the socio-cultural dynamics involved in the neolithization of North-Western Europe. This flint has been assigned to Western Belgian ‘Obourg’ flint type and is used as a key indicator of strong links between populations from West Belgium (Mons Basin) and the German Rhineland at the beginning of the 5th millennium BC. Here, we present an integrated study of this flint using geochemical and lithic technological approaches. This work rules out attribution of the analysed flint artefacts to the Upper Cretaceous flint sources of the Mons Basin; however, the exact origin of the black flint used in the Rhineland remains unanswered. Our results do not support the hypothesis of intensive contact between populations from West Belgium and the German Rhineland and highlights the urgent need for further combined petrographic and geochemical analyses in the region, particularly on geological samples, in order to build up an extensive and reliable comparative reference collection.
KW - Flint sourcing
KW - LA-ICP-MS
KW - Lithic technology
KW - Neolithic
KW - North-western Europe
KW - Post-Linear Pottery cultures
KW - Technical traditions
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.037
DO - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.037
M3 - Article
SN - 2352-4103
VL - 23
SP - 946
EP - 952
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
ER -