Vlaardingen culture

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Vlaardingen culture (Dutch: Vlaardingencultuur) is the name of an early Neolithic culture in the Netherlands . The eponymous site is Vlaardingen near Rotterdam . Vlaardingen was excavated from 1959 to 1964 by the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory (Amsterdam Archaeological Center). It lies on the embankment of a small canal and was between 3350 and 1950 BC. It was settled during the Vlaardingen culture and the time of the bell beaker culture . At Burgh-Haamstede on Schouwen-Duiveland a settlement with two-aisled houses was found between beach walls.

Lendert Louwe Kooijmans (1976) divided the ceramics of the Vlaardinger group into four phases (la, Ib, 2a and 2b). Stalked arrowheads come from sites of the Vlaardingen culture. Vlaardingen finds in Hasselsweiler near Jülich show that artefacts from this cultural area can have reached the Rhineland, because the tips are also represented in the Wartberg culture . The predecessor of the Vlaardingen culture is the Swifterbant culture .

Baking plates and collar bottles , which also occur in the funnel beaker culture, have also been found in the area of ​​the Vlaardingen culture. Remnants of some settlements have been found in the dune areas near the Dutch coast. The farmers kept cattle, sheep and goats, and grew wheat and barley . The hunt was less important. Vlaardingen is seen as a Mesolithic culture that was able to survive in the tidal area between the arms of the Rhine and Meuse estuaries because there was no continuous farming here . Bones, etc. of the bear , deer , roe deer , otter and sturgeon indicate the importance of hunting . The remains of a dugout canoe , like fish traps , indicate fishing. The people lived in rectangular, and in some places also round, wooden or mud houses. There were utensils made of bones and wood u. a. Hatchets and needles found. Graves have not yet been found.

literature

  • T. van Kolfschoten, RCGM Lauwerier & LH van Wijngaarden-Bakker: De archeozoologie van de steentijd 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lendert Louwe Kooijman, Local Developments in a B or country. Oudheidkundike Mededelingen 57, 1976, 227-297

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