From flint provenance to mobility studies: New raw material determinations from Late Neolithic wetland sites at Lake Biel and Lake Constance

Affolter, Jéhanne; Emmenegger, Lea; Hafner, Albert; Heitz, Caroline; Hinz, Martin; Stapfer, Regine Barbara; Wehren, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.05.027

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“…At Hornstaad-Hörnle IA and Sipplingen A (Figure 9) the pottery vessels show a similar stylistic plurality that refers to complex material entanglements and spatial mobility pattern, expanding into all directions (Heitz 2018: 259-260, 276-278, 303-325;Matuschik 2011: 210-257). This might be reflected in the large variety of the siliceous raw materials too (Affolter et al 2022a). However, while KSSR from outcrops located in the West to North-West dominate in Hornstaad-Hörnle IA, in pottery the local style (Hornstaad) is the most abundant followed by the style known to be typical for Upper Swabia in the North-East of Lake Constance (Schussenried).…”

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Linking Neolithic lakeshore settlements through raw material of siliceous artefacts

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This paper presents the results of the provenience analysis of siliceous artefacts from Neolithic lakeshore settlements studied in the scope of the SNSF-project MET (“Mobilities, entanglements and transformations in Neolithic societies on the Swiss Plateau (3900-3500 BCE) supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project No 100011 156205). The aim of this paper is to compare the cultural entanglements as defined by the pottery studies with the regions of origins of the knappable siliceous sedimentary rocks (KSSR) raw materials. The analysed siliceous artefacts were found in cultural layers of wetland settlements in the Northern Alpine Foreland, most of which are dated dendrochronologically with extreme precision. The sources of the raw materials were determined by the identification of the sedimentary microfacies of the siliceous artefacts, which allows the accurate location of the exploited outcrops without destroying the artefacts. This enabled detailed insights into complex entanglements, ties and mobility patterns in the raw material procurement between settlement communities on the Swiss Plateau, southern Germany and eastern France. Furthermore, these results were compared visually with stylistic entanglements in the pottery of the 4th millennium BCE. As a first attempt in this direction, this paper shows the potential of studies on mobility patterns when different find categories are studied in combination regarding their raw materials but also their typology.

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confidence: 99%