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Kreuz, Angela, Maewrkle, Tanja, Marinova, Elena ORCID: 0000-0003-3793-3317, Roesch, Manfred, Schaefer, Eva, Schamuhn, Silke and Zerl, Tanja (2014). The Late Neolithic Michelsberg culture - just ramparts and ditches? A supraregional comparison of agricultural and environmental data. Praehist. Z., 89 (1). S. 72 - 116. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1613-0804

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Abstract

The archaeobotanical state of research from sites of the Michelsberg and the Bischheim culture (5th/4th millenium BC) in France, Belgium, southern Netherlands and Germany has been compiled and discussed in the context of archaeological, climatological and biological data. Compared with Bischheim and the Middle Neolithic the farmers of the Michelsberg culture had a reduced crop spectrum with emphasis on cereal growing. It is still under debate, from where the tetraploid wheat has been introduced. Possibly the growing of oil/fibre plants was abandoned by the Michelsberg farmers. Interestingly the same reduced crop spectrum is found somewhat later in the distribution area of the Funnelbeaker culture as well as in the Neolithic sites of Great Britain and Ireland. Climatic causes are not likely for this phenomenon. Instead, zoologial and botanical results point to an agricultural system with more emphasis on stock farming, which might have been based on a cultural decision.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kreuz, Angela UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Maewrkle, Tanja UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Marinova, Elena UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3793-3317 UNSPECIFIED Roesch, Manfred UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schaefer, Eva UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schamuhn, Silke UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zerl, Tanja UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-452658
DOI:	10.1515/pz-2014-0006
Journal or Publication Title:	Praehist. Z.
Volume:	89
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 72 - 116
Date:	2014
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1613-0804
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LAKE-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SOUTHWEST GERMANY; CENTRAL EUROPE; POLLEN; RECORD; EIFEL Multiple languages Anthropology; Archaeology; History Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45265