A later fifth-millennium cal BC tumulus at Hofheim-Kapellenberg, Germany
- In the nineteenth century, two Neolithic axe-heads were reported from the Michelsberg enclosure system at Kapellenberg. The recent identification of an unusually large tumulus, from which the axe-heads were almost certainly once recovered, reveals that socio-political hierarchisation, linked to the emergence of high-ranking elites in Brittany and the Paris Basin during the fifth millennium cal BC, may have extended into Central Europe.
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| Author: | Detlef GronenbornORCiDGND, Heinrich ThiemeyerGND, Anja Cramer, Nicolas Antunes, Dieter Neubauer, Pierre Pétrequin |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-571886 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.79 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 |
| ISSN: | 0003-598X |
| Parent Title (German): | Antiquity |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publication: | Cambridge |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/05/26 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/05/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/12/30 |
| Tag: | Brittany; Germany Neolithic; Michelsberg; burial; jade axe-head |
| Volume: | 94 |
| Issue: | 375 |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 8 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 476006392 |
| Institutes: | Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
