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
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):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0