930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
Refine
Year of publication
- 2020 (1)
Document Type
- Article (1)
Language
- English (1)
Has Fulltext
- yes (1)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (1)
Keywords
- Brittany (1)
- Germany Neolithic (1)
- Michelsberg (1)
- burial (1)
- jade axe-head (1)
Institute
- Geowissenschaften (1) (remove)
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.