Zedau settlement
The prehistoric settlement of Zedau is a Young Bronze and Iron Age site in Osterburg - Zedau in the Stendal district of Saxony-Anhalt . The well-researched settlement gives an insight into the settlement system of the Elb-Havel group in today's area of north-eastern Saxony-Anhalt and western Brandenburg .
Pit houses with tent-like gable roofs could be reconstructed as residential buildings. The approximately 25 square meter interior of the pit houses was sunk flat into the ground. Wall constructions could not be proven. It is assumed that these pit houses served as workshops and farm buildings, but it is also assumed that they were used as living space, as there was space for a family in the houses. There were also separate storage pits within the settlement that were used as granaries. The Elb-Havel group's mine housing estates are very different from the three-aisled residential barns that are common in the north on the coast , in which people and cattle were housed together under one roof.
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Remarks
- ↑ a b See Harald Meller (Ed.): Glutgeboren. Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the Landesmuseum Halle . Volume 5). Halle an der Saale 2015, ISBN 978-3-944507-14-9 , p. 44.
literature
- Fritz Horst: Zedau. A Young Bronze and Iron Age settlement in the Altmark . In: Writings on prehistory and early history 38. Berlin 1985.
- Albrecht Jockenhövel: Fritz Horst, Zedau. A young bronze and iron age settlement in the Altmark . In: Germania 68, 1990, pp. 269-274, (review, online ).
- Helmut Jäger , Gerhard Mildenberger , Wolfgang P. Schmid , Dieter Timpe : Elbe. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 94-107. ( Article accessed via GAO at De Gruyter Online)