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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.
After the introduction of the pottery tradition of La Hoguette and contemporaneous research on Earliest LBK about 10 to 15 years ago, research onthe spread of farming in Central Europe had somewhat stagnated; there were hardly any major advances in factual knowledge, nor could theoretical models be refined. In the last few years, however, an abundance of new data has appeared, partly deriving from botanical and anthropological analyses. Furthermore, newly available results from excavations in European Russia widenour understanding of the manifold and complex changes occurring during the latter 7th and 6th millennium cal BC.
Die Studie behandelt archäologische und ethnoarchäologische wie auch ethnohistorische Untersuchungen im südlichen Tschadbecken Nigerias in der Zeit zwischen 1992 und 1998. Die Untersuchungen fanden im Rahmen der Anstellung des Verf. im Sonderforschungsbereich 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne" sowie eines Habilitationsstipendiums der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft statt.
Zeitrahmen ist das 7./8. Jh. n. Chr. bis 1925, Hauptthema die Entwicklung komplexer eisenzeitlicher Gesellschaften in der Region sowie ihre Transformation bei der Eingliederung des Raumes in das expandierende Reich Kanem-Borno.