Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group

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The Villeneuve-Saint-Germain Group (VSG, French Group de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain ) is the oldest cultural group of the Neolithic Age (French Neolithique ancien ) in northwestern France , especially in Brittany and the Paris Basin, as well as in Belgium , where they is called Blicquien . It owes its name to the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain site on the Aisne , which existed between around 5100 and 4700 BC. BC and prepares the earliest European megalithic phase.

It is, as the simultaneous on the Loire estuary used group atlantique ancien Neolithique and the east spread La Hoguette group that quickly from the band Ceramic culture was superimposed (LBK), an offshoot (epicardial) of the south of France spread and western Mediterranean area Cardial or imprint culture .

The Aubevoye bull is a zoomorphic hollow vessel belonging to the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain group.

literature

  • Frédéric Prodéo: La céramique du site Villeneuve-Saint-Germain de Longueil-Sainte-Marie "La Butte de Rhuis III" (Oise). In: Revue archéologique de Picardie. Numéro spécial 19: 19e colloque interrégional néolithique d'Amiens 1992, 1992, pp. 41-61.
  • Rose-Marie Arbogast: Les faunes du groupe de Villeneuve-Saint-Germain de la vallée de l'Oise et leur contexte en Bassin Parisien. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Vol. 92, No. 3, 1995, pp. 322-331.