Hutberg Group

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The Hutberg group is a young Neolithic regional group of the funnel beaker culture (TBK); named after a site near Wallendorf in Saxony-Anhalt . It dates back to the transition phase between the Baalberger and Salzmünder cultures . As a leading form a form of random ornate carinated bowls applies.

The settlement on Hutberg

The site, discovered while mining gravel, was excavated by Friedrich Benesch in 1938 and 1939 . A fortification system was excavated, consisting of an inner and an outer rampart, which enclosed the elevation consisting of three small peaks (hills 1, 2 and 3). Inside the facility there were a total of 76 pits with remains. Benesch divided the pits into different types, distinguishing between garbage pits, storage pits, living pits and hearth pits. Due to their location, these could be combined into small groups, each interpreted as part of a house above. So the structure of a small village emerged.

Burials

Human remains were found in five pits. It was noticeable that of the total of five people, two individuals each were buried in a pit in the area of ​​a house. However, since a house was destroyed by the excavator when it was uncovered, the bones in the pits could no longer be evaluated. However, the pits under the second house were intact and contained two individuals. The corpse, identified by Benesch as male, was buried in a former hearth pit in the form of a bone burial, which points to a dissection of the deceased or to a secondary burial. The individual identified as female was a stool burial, oriented east-west and had no grave goods. On the hill 1 there was a central grave in which a dead man was buried in a crouched position.

Found material

The finds show the influences of various Neolithic cultures . There are ceramic remains with shapes from the Salzmünder , Michelsberger , Baalberger , Jordansmühler , Gaterslebener and Fichterbecherkultur . A continuous settlement is assumed, in which the different cultural influences mixed.

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literature

  • Friedrich Benesch : Fortified settlement of the Michelsberg culture on the Hutberg near Wallendorf Kr. Merseburg , in: Nachrichtenblatt für Deutsche Vorzeit 15 (1939) 89-92.
  • Friedrich Benesch: The fortress Hutberg near Wallendorf Kr. Merseburg , in: Nachrichtenblatt für Deutsche Vorzeit 16 (1940) 242–243.
  • Friedrich Benesch: The Hutberg Fortress. A mixed settlement near Wallendorf, Kr. Merseburg. Gebauer-Schwetschke Verlag , Halle 1941.
  • Jonas Beran: Investigations on the position of the Salzmünder culture in the early Neolithic of the Saale area , Verlag Beier & Beran , Wilkau-Hasslau 1993.
  • Torsten Schunke: “Hutberg Group”. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Ralph Einicke (Ed.): The Neolithic in the Middle Elbe-Saale area. An overview and an outline of the state of research (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 4). Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Hasslau 1994, ISBN 3-930036-05-3 , pp. 133-134.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Beran: Investigations on the position of the Salzmünder culture in the early Neolithic of the Saale area. Verlag Beier & Beran , Wilkau-Hasslau 1993, p. 54; 62.
  2. ^ Friedrich Benesch: Fortified settlement of the Michelsberg culture on the Hutberg near Wallendorf Kr. Merseburg , in: Nachrichtenblatt für Deutsche Vorzeit 15 (1939), p. 90.
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Benesch : The Hutberg Fortress. A mixed settlement near Wallendorf, Kr.Merseburg , Gebauer-Schwetschke Verlag , Halle 1941.
  4. ↑ Jonas Beran: Investigations on the position of the Salzmünder culture in the early Neolithic of the Saale area. Verlag Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Hasslau 1993, p. 61.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 12 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 3 ″  E