Egolzwiler culture

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Cultures in Switzerland

The Egolzwil culture forms a short-term independent cultural area in the Neolithic of Central Switzerland . The eponymous place is in the canton of Lucerne . It formed parallel to the Cortaillod ancien in western Switzerland and the Rössen culture in eastern Switzerland, around 4300 BC. Chr. Out. The defining forms, especially of the ceramics , were taken over from western Switzerland and refined, but also poorer. Cultural connections to the Central European cultures are evidenced by so-called Wauwiler cups (after the place where they were found in Wauwilermoos), they are also called Spätrössen ball cups. About the discovery of such a mug, which is shown in the Museum Olten (see web link), the stone box from Däniken-Studenweid can be attributed to the Egolzwiler culture,

The most important sites are Egolzwil 3 and Schötz 1 in Wauwilermoos (moor) and layer 5 of the Zurich- Kleiner Hafner island settlement . The Egolzwiler culture emerges in Cortaillod in central Switzerland after about 300 years.

literature

  • Werner E. Stöckli (Ed.): Switzerland from the Palaeolithic to the early Middle Ages , vol. 2: Neolithic , Swiss Society for Ur- u. Early history, Basel 1995, p. 29 ff. ISBN 3-908006-51-1
  • René Wyss: Stone Age farmers in search of new ways of life. Egolzwil 3 and the Egolzwil culture . Zurich. 2003

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