@article{7d0a28f0c3be43de85223e63c9b249f7,
title = "Neolithization Processes of East Belgium: Supra-Regional Relationships Between Groups Highlighted by Technological Analysis of Lithic Industry",
abstract = "Technological analysis of variations in blade production and the flow of siliceous raw materials revealed new understandings of different types of socio-economic functioning on a supra-regional scale. In this article, we are focusing on supra-regional relationships between technical groups and the social dynamics involved in early Neolithic mobility within the communities of East Belgium. A detailed technological analysis was done to highlight discrete characteristics that permit the identification of distinct technical groups within the village of Vaux-et-Borset. Four technical groups have been identified in the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain village, whereas two technical groups have been highlighted for the previous Linear Pottery culture (LPC) occupation. The search for the origin of the different technical groups was to understand the micro-processes of Neolithization in East Belgium. A central area with a high-density population during the pioneer LPC colonization, Hesbaye became a peripheral occupation area of the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture. This fringe territory seemed to attract neighbouring communities in different ways. Multidirectional dynamics seems to characterize this small territory leading to the coexistence of a high diversity of technical groups.",
keywords = "Early Neolithic, East Belgium, lithic industry, technical traditions, technological analysis",
author = "Solene Denis and Laurence Burnez and Frantisek Trampota",
note = "Funding Information: The results presented here were produced during different post-doctoral projects carried out by S. Denis: (1) “Technical Identities and Social, Economic and Cultural Dynamics at the beginning of the Neolithic in North-Western Europe. The lithic industries of agro-pastoral populations of the first third of the fifth millennium,” MOVE-IN Louvain Incoming Post-doctoral Fellowship, co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission 2017–2019 (supervision L. Burnez-Lanotte). (2) “L{\textquoteright}industrie lithique du site d{\textquoteright}Ath « les Haleurs »: un {\'e}clairage unique sur la n{\'e}olithisation de la Moyenne Belgique,” In-WBI Excellence Fellowship, 2020, thanks to the Direction Op{\'e}rationnelle Zone ouest de l{\textquoteright}AWaP and the IRSNB, which were in charge of the excavation. (3) German sites have been studied thanks to the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l{\textquoteright}Homme and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, as well as the Ernst Foundation and Margarete Wagemann, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, post-doctoral mobility fellowships (2016–2017). (4) Written part of the paper was also supported from Operational Programme Research, Development and Education – Project “Postdoc2MUNI” (No. CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016952). (5) We wish to thank the Cercle arch{\'e}ologique Hesbaye Condroz and its president E. Delye, who agreed to entrust us with the study of the material from Vaux-et-Borset. We would like to address special thanks to our colleagues from our scientific teams involved over the years in excavations of Vaux-et-Borset and in study of LPC and post/LPC settlements in France and Belgium who made this research possible. In addition, we are grateful to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the context of the Hainaut archaeological mission (C. Constantin and L. Burnez-Lanotte dir.), whose financial support made possible research at Vaux-et-Borset from 1989 to 1990. Finally, we are very grateful to the reviewers of this paper who contributed greatly to the improvement of the original version. Funding Information: Funding information: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the context of the Hainaut archaeological mission (C. Constantin and L. Burnez-Lanotte dir.), whose financial support made possible research at Vaux-et-Borset from 1989 to 1990. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Sol{\`e}ne Denis et al., published by De Gruyter.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1515/opar-2020-0180",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "904--922",
journal = "Open Archaeology",
publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH",
number = "1",
}