DOI Kapitel:
Klimscha, Florian; Heumüller, Marion; Raemaekers, Daan C. M.; Peeters, Hans; Terberger, Thomas: Stone Age parallel societies?
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.66745#0009
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Foreword
Nelson and Alexandra Philippi present excavation
data from the first settlement of the Linear Pottery
culture discovered north of the loess border in
northwestern Germany. Michael Muller and Michael
Schirren analyse the evidence from hoards along
the boundaries of Mesolithic and Neolithic groups.
A later Danubian expedition into the north is dealt
with in the paper by Christian Hiilsebusch and
Albrecht Jockenhbvel on the Middle Neolithic settle-
ment of Nottuln-Uphoven. Three other papers study
contemporary Late Mesolithic evidence in the Baltic
Sea area. Sonke Hartz sums up the evidence from
Schleswig-Holstein, while Andreas Kotula as well as
Jacek Kabaciriski and Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny
study northern Poland. Daniela Hofmann, Hans
Peeters and Ann-Katrin Meyer then discuss the
evidence and sketch a detailed and complex interac-
tion pattern between foragers and farmers.
In the second part of the book, Changing
Worlds: The Spread of the Neolithic Way of Life in
the North, more general aspects of the neolithisation
are collected, starting with Daan C. M. Raemaekers,
who argues against agonistic narratives charged with
conflict and presents an alternative reading of the
imports in the Swifterbant culture. Luc Amkreutz
combines a long-term narrative on the neolithisa-
tion with a strictly local perspective focussing on the
Rhine-Meuse delta. Technical innovations are the
focus of the papers by Anne Birgitte Gebauer and
Lasse Sorensen (metallurgy) and Florian Klimscha
and Daniel Neumann (arsenic bronze, traction). New
data on specific regions or archaeological pheno-
mena, respectively, are discussed in three papers by
Alexandra Philippi (Schoningen group), Benedikt
Knoche (causewayed enclosures) and Anja Behrens,
Moritz Mennenga, Steffen Wolters and Martina Karie
(Cuxhaven region), while recapitulary papers by
Walter Dorfler, Johannes Muller and Wibke Kirleis
present up to date interpretations on the causes,
mechanisms and consequences of the neolithisation
in northern Europe.
This volume would not have been possible
without the help of many people. First and foremost
we want to express our thanks to the Volkswagen
Foundation, who generously funded the project
and its publication with a grant in the Forschung
in Museen initiative. Michaela Finsel and Linda
Delkeskamp were always helpful and gave valuable
advice how to finish the project successfully during
the Corona pandemic.
We also want to thank Prof. Dr. Katja Lembke
(Director of the Lower Saxony State Museum) for
hosting the conference and assisting its performance.
Dr. Henning Hassmann (Director of the Lower
Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage) greatly
helped us by funding the printing of the volume. We
are much obliged to him.
Members of the Lower Saxony State Society
for Prehistory (Niedersachsischer Landesverein
fur Urgeschichte) took over the organisation of the
conference, the conference office and the catering.
Without those honorary helpers it would not have
been possible to host more than 80 international
participants in Hanover.
The publication was made possible by helping
hands and funding from both the Lower Saxony
State Museum and the Lower Saxony State Service
for Cultural Heritage. Special thanks are also due
to the District Administrator (Landraf) of Diepholz
district Cord Bockhop. We would also like to thank
Vijay Diaz (Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural
Heritage) for the graphic editing, and our colleague
Dr. Ulrike Weller (Collection Manager of the Lower
Saxony State Museum’s archaeological finds) who
presented original finds to the participants.
Finally we would like to thank all those who
also presented research results at the conference but
unfortunately could not contribute to this volume:
Ulrich Schmolcke (Kiel), Canan Qakirlar, Safoora
Kamjan (Groningen), Johannes Krause (Jena), Erik
Drenth (Amersfoort), Martha Zur-Schaepers (Colo-
gne), Harald Liibke (Schleswig), Kenneth Ritchie
(Schleswig), Marcello Mannino (Arhus), Harry
Robson (York), Sebastian Lorenz (Greifswald),
Lisbeth Messiaen, Dimitri Teetaert, Eva Halbrucker
and Philippe Crombe (Gent).
Last but not least, we want to point out that
the outcomes of this conference did not only result
in the publication of this book, but were also essen-
tial for a special exhibition in the Lower Saxony
State Museum, ‘Invention of Gods. Stone Age in the
North’, which will be presented in Hanover from
April 1st - August 28th, 2022, and we thank all contri-
butors to this volume for having made this possible.
Hanover and Groningen, February 24th 2022
Florian Klimscha, Marion Heumiiller,
Daan C. M. Raemaekers, Hans Peeters and
Thomas Terberger
Foreword
Nelson and Alexandra Philippi present excavation
data from the first settlement of the Linear Pottery
culture discovered north of the loess border in
northwestern Germany. Michael Muller and Michael
Schirren analyse the evidence from hoards along
the boundaries of Mesolithic and Neolithic groups.
A later Danubian expedition into the north is dealt
with in the paper by Christian Hiilsebusch and
Albrecht Jockenhbvel on the Middle Neolithic settle-
ment of Nottuln-Uphoven. Three other papers study
contemporary Late Mesolithic evidence in the Baltic
Sea area. Sonke Hartz sums up the evidence from
Schleswig-Holstein, while Andreas Kotula as well as
Jacek Kabaciriski and Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny
study northern Poland. Daniela Hofmann, Hans
Peeters and Ann-Katrin Meyer then discuss the
evidence and sketch a detailed and complex interac-
tion pattern between foragers and farmers.
In the second part of the book, Changing
Worlds: The Spread of the Neolithic Way of Life in
the North, more general aspects of the neolithisation
are collected, starting with Daan C. M. Raemaekers,
who argues against agonistic narratives charged with
conflict and presents an alternative reading of the
imports in the Swifterbant culture. Luc Amkreutz
combines a long-term narrative on the neolithisa-
tion with a strictly local perspective focussing on the
Rhine-Meuse delta. Technical innovations are the
focus of the papers by Anne Birgitte Gebauer and
Lasse Sorensen (metallurgy) and Florian Klimscha
and Daniel Neumann (arsenic bronze, traction). New
data on specific regions or archaeological pheno-
mena, respectively, are discussed in three papers by
Alexandra Philippi (Schoningen group), Benedikt
Knoche (causewayed enclosures) and Anja Behrens,
Moritz Mennenga, Steffen Wolters and Martina Karie
(Cuxhaven region), while recapitulary papers by
Walter Dorfler, Johannes Muller and Wibke Kirleis
present up to date interpretations on the causes,
mechanisms and consequences of the neolithisation
in northern Europe.
This volume would not have been possible
without the help of many people. First and foremost
we want to express our thanks to the Volkswagen
Foundation, who generously funded the project
and its publication with a grant in the Forschung
in Museen initiative. Michaela Finsel and Linda
Delkeskamp were always helpful and gave valuable
advice how to finish the project successfully during
the Corona pandemic.
We also want to thank Prof. Dr. Katja Lembke
(Director of the Lower Saxony State Museum) for
hosting the conference and assisting its performance.
Dr. Henning Hassmann (Director of the Lower
Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage) greatly
helped us by funding the printing of the volume. We
are much obliged to him.
Members of the Lower Saxony State Society
for Prehistory (Niedersachsischer Landesverein
fur Urgeschichte) took over the organisation of the
conference, the conference office and the catering.
Without those honorary helpers it would not have
been possible to host more than 80 international
participants in Hanover.
The publication was made possible by helping
hands and funding from both the Lower Saxony
State Museum and the Lower Saxony State Service
for Cultural Heritage. Special thanks are also due
to the District Administrator (Landraf) of Diepholz
district Cord Bockhop. We would also like to thank
Vijay Diaz (Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural
Heritage) for the graphic editing, and our colleague
Dr. Ulrike Weller (Collection Manager of the Lower
Saxony State Museum’s archaeological finds) who
presented original finds to the participants.
Finally we would like to thank all those who
also presented research results at the conference but
unfortunately could not contribute to this volume:
Ulrich Schmolcke (Kiel), Canan Qakirlar, Safoora
Kamjan (Groningen), Johannes Krause (Jena), Erik
Drenth (Amersfoort), Martha Zur-Schaepers (Colo-
gne), Harald Liibke (Schleswig), Kenneth Ritchie
(Schleswig), Marcello Mannino (Arhus), Harry
Robson (York), Sebastian Lorenz (Greifswald),
Lisbeth Messiaen, Dimitri Teetaert, Eva Halbrucker
and Philippe Crombe (Gent).
Last but not least, we want to point out that
the outcomes of this conference did not only result
in the publication of this book, but were also essen-
tial for a special exhibition in the Lower Saxony
State Museum, ‘Invention of Gods. Stone Age in the
North’, which will be presented in Hanover from
April 1st - August 28th, 2022, and we thank all contri-
butors to this volume for having made this possible.
Hanover and Groningen, February 24th 2022
Florian Klimscha, Marion Heumiiller,
Daan C. M. Raemaekers, Hans Peeters and
Thomas Terberger