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Changing Worlds – The Spread of the Neolithic Way of Life in the North
DOI chapter:Klimscha, Florian; Neumann, Daniel: A longue durée perspective on technical innovations in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic of the North European Plain
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A longue duree perspective on technical innovations in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic of the North European Plain
Fig. 3 Fork-shaped signs pecked into
a pseudo-megalithic gallery grave at
Warburg I, stone B3 (after Gunther 1997,
202 Abb. 144).
vessel from Ostrowiec, woj. Kielce (a.k.a. Ostrowca
Swi^tokrzyskiego), Poland, found in a storage pit of a
TRB settlement together with Lengyel and Globular
Amphora culture remains (Bakker 2004, 289). It is
dated relatively late, because of the association with
a globular amphora, suggesting a terminus post quem
of c. 3,100 calBC. The depiction is very abstract, and
its interpretation as a wagon is not definite. The other
decoration on a TRB vessel from Bronocice, Poland
Fig. 4 Wagon depiction on a pottery vessel from Bronocice
(after Milisauskas/ Kruk 1982, Taf. 8).
(Fig. 4) is better understandable as a wagon with a
surrounding landscape of rivers and fields (Milis-
auskas / Kruk 1982, Taf. 8; cf. also Milisauskas /
Kruk 1977). Each wagon is shown as a box with
four appendices to which circles are attached. A fifth
circle is placed within the box. Two lines converge
to form a triangle on top of which a Y-shaped sign
is placed. The depiction is rather abstract and can
only be understood as a wagon with appropriate prior
knowledge. The fork-shaped signs from Ziischen and
Warburg representing cattle must thereby be seen
as analogous to the Y-shaped sign on the Bronocice
pot. Furthermore, the depiction of the wagon from a
bird’s eye view with the wheels shown from the side
is well known from later petroglyphs. Typologically
the vessel belongs into the phase Bronocice III (Mil-
isauskas / Kruk 1982, 143) that is nowadays seen
as starting c. 3,500-3,300 calBC (cf. Kruk / Mili-
sauskas 2018). The Bronocice depiction has good
analogies within rock art from central Germany.
Gunther (1997, 206 plate 49,1) already referred to
several menhirs as well as the pottery drums from
the Bernburg and Walternienburg cultures as analo-
gies for the Ziischen and Warburg graves: The ‘style’
A longue duree perspective on technical innovations in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic of the North European Plain
Fig. 3 Fork-shaped signs pecked into
a pseudo-megalithic gallery grave at
Warburg I, stone B3 (after Gunther 1997,
202 Abb. 144).
vessel from Ostrowiec, woj. Kielce (a.k.a. Ostrowca
Swi^tokrzyskiego), Poland, found in a storage pit of a
TRB settlement together with Lengyel and Globular
Amphora culture remains (Bakker 2004, 289). It is
dated relatively late, because of the association with
a globular amphora, suggesting a terminus post quem
of c. 3,100 calBC. The depiction is very abstract, and
its interpretation as a wagon is not definite. The other
decoration on a TRB vessel from Bronocice, Poland
Fig. 4 Wagon depiction on a pottery vessel from Bronocice
(after Milisauskas/ Kruk 1982, Taf. 8).
(Fig. 4) is better understandable as a wagon with a
surrounding landscape of rivers and fields (Milis-
auskas / Kruk 1982, Taf. 8; cf. also Milisauskas /
Kruk 1977). Each wagon is shown as a box with
four appendices to which circles are attached. A fifth
circle is placed within the box. Two lines converge
to form a triangle on top of which a Y-shaped sign
is placed. The depiction is rather abstract and can
only be understood as a wagon with appropriate prior
knowledge. The fork-shaped signs from Ziischen and
Warburg representing cattle must thereby be seen
as analogous to the Y-shaped sign on the Bronocice
pot. Furthermore, the depiction of the wagon from a
bird’s eye view with the wheels shown from the side
is well known from later petroglyphs. Typologically
the vessel belongs into the phase Bronocice III (Mil-
isauskas / Kruk 1982, 143) that is nowadays seen
as starting c. 3,500-3,300 calBC (cf. Kruk / Mili-
sauskas 2018). The Bronocice depiction has good
analogies within rock art from central Germany.
Gunther (1997, 206 plate 49,1) already referred to
several menhirs as well as the pottery drums from
the Bernburg and Walternienburg cultures as analo-
gies for the Ziischen and Warburg graves: The ‘style’