Køkkenmødding by the Norsminde Fjord
The Køkkenmødding at Norsminde Fjord is located on the barely 3.0 km long and 500 m wide Norsminde Fjord ; about 20.0 km south of Århus , in Jutland in Denmark .
The Norsminde Fjord used to be almost twice as big as it is today, but around 1830 its southern part, the Kysing Fjord, was drained and cultivated.
The findings made during the archaeological excavations in 1972 and 1988 shed light on the transition from the Middle to the Younger Stone Age. The two-layer shell pile is up to one meter high. The lower layer mainly contains oyster shells , which come from the end of the Mesolithic Ertebølle culture . The upper layer consists mainly of cockle shells and dates from the beginning of the Neolithic Age . The different types of mussels indicate that the people here during the cultural upheaval around the year 3900 BC. Lived when the established hunters and gatherers were ousted by the new arable farmers of the funnel cup culture (TBK).
- Norsminde Fjord
Map of the fjord before 1830
literature
- GN Bailey, N. Milner: The marine molluscs from the Norsminde shell midden . In Søren H. Andersen (ed.) Stone Age Settlement of the Norsminde Fjord, Jutland, Denmark.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Køkkenmødding (German kitchen rubbish heap , - German spelling according to Duden Kökkenmödding - ( English midden )) is a prehistoric heap of rubbish made of shells and housings of the mollusc fauna, which is left as a remnant of food production in Meso- and Neolithic places (in Europe especially on the Atlantic ) Is found.