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Spoelstra, Laurie (2011)

Wartberg-Vlaardingen-Stein-complex? Een studie naar drie cultuurgroepen in het midden-neolithicum B

Bachelor thesis | Archeologie (BA)

This paper investigates the Wartberg-Stein-Vlaardingen-complex as proposed by Louwe Kooijmans (1983) A systematic comparison was made of chronology, pottery, burial rituals, settlements, and subsistence of these three cultural groups. Stein and Vlaardingen show many similarities in pottery which lead to the suggestion that they might have been one cultural phenomenon, with Stein being the dry component and Vlaardingen the wet component. However, this disregards the differences in other aspects of material culture. The Wartberg-culture is geographically far apart and show some important differences. The main conclusion of this paper is that there is not enough common ground for the Wartberg-Stein-Vlaardingen-complex set apart from other middle and late neolithic cultures in Western Europe. The relations of the Wartberg-culture with Stein- and Vlaardingen-group are not as close as propesed by Louwe Kooijmans (1983).

Author

Spoelstra, Laurie

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Supervisors

Verpoorte, A.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

nl