Neckar Group

Menhir from Weilheim

The Neckar Group is an early Bronze Age regional group in Baden-Württemberg . It was named in 1988 by Rüdiger Krause . The distribution area extended roughly from Tübingen in the south to Heilbronn in the north. The sites are often along the Neckar . The so-called Menhir von Weilheim , which is assigned to this group, is known. Five daggers are carved on it. The largest known necropolis to date has been excavated near Remseck-Aldingen . It consisted of 34 graves with 37 buried individuals.

Neighboring cultural groups from the Early Bronze Age are the Straubinger Group in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland and the Singen Group on Lake Constance and the Upper Rhine . In the north is the distribution area of the Adlerberg group .

Web links

Menhir from Weilheim on tuepedia.de
Weilheim Menhir on megalithic.co.uk

Individual evidence

^ Rüdiger Krause : A new burial ground of the older Early Bronze Age from Remseck-Aldingen, Ludwigsburg district. In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg. 1988 (1989), ISSN 0724-8954 , pp. 156-160.
↑ Hartmann Reim : The Menhir von Weilheim - On Neolithic and Early Bronze Age stone sculptures in the Neckar Valley between Rottenburg and Tübingen. In: Hans-Peter Wotzka (Hrsg.): Grundlegungen. Contributions to European and African archeology for Manfred KH Eggert. Francke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8187-8 , pp. 445-461.

[1] Rüdiger Krause : A new burial ground of the older Early Bronze Age from Remseck-Aldingen, Ludwigsburg district. In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg. 1988 (1989), ISSN 0724-8954 , pp. 156-160.

[2] Hartmann Reim : The Menhir von Weilheim - On Neolithic and Early Bronze Age stone sculptures in the Neckar Valley between Rottenburg and Tübingen. In: Hans-Peter Wotzka (Hrsg.): Grundlegungen. Contributions to European and African archeology for Manfred KH Eggert. Francke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8187-8 , pp. 445-461.