Project Details
Projekt
Chronology, Landscape Development and Settlement Dynamics at the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition Between the Swabian Jura an the Black Forest
Subject Area
Prehistory and World Archaeology
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 541088131
The research project aims at investigating the change from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in a selected core area of Southwest Germany. In this respect, already completed excavations at LBK settlements in the Ammer valley west of Tübingen and at Mesolithic open-air sites in the middle Neckar valley offer ideal conditions. In addition to the dense archaeological landscape, a former wetland depression with surrounding reed belt in the immediate vicinity of the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic settlement areas represents a climate and environmental archive of inestimable value. This so-called Ammer-mire allows a landscape reconstruction from the end of the Pleistocene to the beginning of the Early Neolithic settlement in the region. Within the framework of two dissertations, the lithic production at the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition and the sequence of Early Neolithic settlement in the study area will be analysed. From the newly acquired high-resolution data on the absolute-chronological framework of the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic and on the settlement history, we expect to gain important insights into potential interactions between different populations as well as landscape change in the course of the Neolithisation process in Central Europe.
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