Campignia

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Finds in the Musée archéologique de Pons

The Campignien (4000 B.C. ) is a Mesolithic archaeological culture named after the finds from the Campigny hill in the Seine-Maritime department in north-western France .

Their distribution extends over the fringes of the Neolithic cultures in both Western and Eastern Europe. Campignia finds evidently reflect an acculturation that arose during the advance of the first peasant cultures of southern France ( La Hoguette group ) and central Europe ( ceramic band culture ) among people living in the hunter-gatherer stage in the west and east.

The macrolithic stone industry with a coarse stone inventory consists mainly of core and disc axes (French: tranchet). The core and disc axes of the Northern European Maglemose culture are related to those of the Campignia. In the late Campignia, ground and polished hatchets , raw clay vessels and millstones appear . A livestock is not occupied by the bones of horses, cattle, sheep / goat and pig, as these bones may also represent hunting of wild varieties.

Numerous finds in the Swabian Alb , which until the 1960s were referred to as "coarse Mesolithic" (or Campignia), are now regarded as natural frost splinters or as semi-finished products from Neolithic raw material extraction.

literature

  • LR Nougier: Le Campignien. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 1954 , 51/8, pp. 76-78.

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