Baking plate
Baking plates (also called clay disks) are plate-shaped clay disks from ancient times. They were named after their supposed purpose. They can be found in the horizons of the Neolithic Baalberg culture , the Chassey-Lagozza-Cortaillod culture (4600-2400 BC), the spherical amphora culture (3100-2700 BC), the Michelsberg culture (4400-3500 BC) . Chr.), In the early Nordic funnel beaker culture (TBK 4200–2800 BC) and in the Vlaardingen culture (3350–1950 BC)
Technical investigations have shown that the pieces, which can be clearly distinguished from the rest of the ceramics in terms of preservation, method of manufacture and quality of the clay, did not depend on water resistance, but on heat resistance. This allows the explanation that the plates served as baking plates.
In gas chromatographic analysis of the two baking plates of the Heuneburg (6th century. Chr.) Was detected on the trays bone oil.
Grain porridge could have been prepared as flatbread on baking plates. On a baking plate from the Weiher settlement near Thayngen ( Canton Schaffhausen , Switzerland ) - probably Michelsberg culture - imprints of a plaited mat were found, which apparently consisted of a bast-like or grass-like material. There are baking plates with holes (perforations) and concentric grooves.
literature
- Hermann Behrens : clay disks ("baking plates") from the Central German Neolithic. In: Annual journal of the Middle German Prehistory. 47, 1963, p. 127 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Müller-Karpe : Handbook of Prehistory. Volume 3, Munich, Beck 1974, p. 200.
- ↑ Daniela Fort links Feiler: The bowls and bowls of Heuneburg (= . Heuneburg studies Band 7). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1989, p. 40 f.