DOI Kapitel:
Changing Worlds – The Spread of the Neolithic Way of Life in the North
DOI Kapitel:Müller, Johannes: A long lasting transformation: northern Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic multi-dimensional developments (c. 4,750 – 3,800 BCE)
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A long lasting transformation: northern Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic multi-dimensional developments
Fig. 1 The location of the discussed sites in the western Baltic area. The spatial differentiation on the south Cimbrian Peninsula from c.
4,100-3,800 BCE is displayed.
Only in the rarest cases are efforts made to compare
not only individual types, but also the quantitative
composition of these types and to test correspond-
ing typological similarities with scientific dating for
their chronological relevance (Hartz 2004; Sorensen
2014; Mischka et al. 2015). In analysing various im-
portant sites, we also recognise the basic tendency of
the researchers not to compare closed or relatively
closed inventories with each other, but instead to dis-
cuss the entire inventory of a site as one assemblage.
Furthermore, the attempt to classify individual
vessels in absolute chronological order by means of
food crust dating has led to considerable difficulties.
The reservoir effects have made the discussion of the
data difficult and have not inspired sometimes neces-
sary typological discourses about Ertebolle pottery
(Philippsen 2010; Fernandes et al. 2014; Meyer
2017). In this respect, an attempt will be made in the
following to use dates that do not involve reservoir
problems. This also includes, for example, indirect
palynological dating of ceramic objects in the analy-
sis (cf. Meurers-Balke / Kalis 2011).
Irrespective of these remarks, in the meantime,
after the publication of intensive site evaluations1
1 Cf. Goldhammer 2008; Glykou 2016; Hage 2016; Faasch
2017; Meyer 2017.
A long lasting transformation: northern Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic multi-dimensional developments
Fig. 1 The location of the discussed sites in the western Baltic area. The spatial differentiation on the south Cimbrian Peninsula from c.
4,100-3,800 BCE is displayed.
Only in the rarest cases are efforts made to compare
not only individual types, but also the quantitative
composition of these types and to test correspond-
ing typological similarities with scientific dating for
their chronological relevance (Hartz 2004; Sorensen
2014; Mischka et al. 2015). In analysing various im-
portant sites, we also recognise the basic tendency of
the researchers not to compare closed or relatively
closed inventories with each other, but instead to dis-
cuss the entire inventory of a site as one assemblage.
Furthermore, the attempt to classify individual
vessels in absolute chronological order by means of
food crust dating has led to considerable difficulties.
The reservoir effects have made the discussion of the
data difficult and have not inspired sometimes neces-
sary typological discourses about Ertebolle pottery
(Philippsen 2010; Fernandes et al. 2014; Meyer
2017). In this respect, an attempt will be made in the
following to use dates that do not involve reservoir
problems. This also includes, for example, indirect
palynological dating of ceramic objects in the analy-
sis (cf. Meurers-Balke / Kalis 2011).
Irrespective of these remarks, in the meantime,
after the publication of intensive site evaluations1
1 Cf. Goldhammer 2008; Glykou 2016; Hage 2016; Faasch
2017; Meyer 2017.