Intercultural contacts between BQY/VSG and GG/PF populations from the Aldenhoven Plateau and surrounding areas
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Go West! Kontakte zwischen Zentral- und Westeuropa |
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| Keywords | Early Middle Neolithic; Aldenhoven Plateau; lithic technology; technical traditions; diffusion networks |
| Description | This paper focuses on the intercultural contacts between the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain and the Grossgartach/Planig-Friedberg cultures. At the turn of the sixth to the fifth millennium BC, a historic rupture in the Linear Pottery Culture colonisation movement is palpable. At that time, the Linear Pottery Culture breaks up into a mosaic of cul-tural entities like Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BQY/VSG) which occupies the northern half of France and Belgium,while in the Rhine basin and the surrounding regions, the Hinkelstein (HK), Grossgartach (GG) and Planig-Friedberg (PF)cultures follow in sequence. These different entities are partially contemporaneous. We thus attempt to track the origin ofthese populations using an original method of lithic artefact analysis including the study of exogenous raw materials andtechnical traditions. |