Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Aspects of change in the bandkeramik settlement area of Eythra, distr. Leipzig, Saxony
AU  - Christiane Frirdich
AU  - Maria Cladders
AU  - Harald Stäuble
AU  - Denise Girardelli
AU  - Thomas Tischendorf
Y1  - 2015
VL  - 53
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 447
EP  - 456
KW  - Eythra – LBK-SBK – Large scale settlement evaluation – House typology – Ceramic seriation –
Development of settlement
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N2  - In Eythra, distr. Leipzig (Germany) a large area displaying bandkeramik (BK) settlement features,
covering a time span from early LBK to late SBK, has been excavated. This provides a good basis for examining
aspects of change in material culture and in settlement structures. Analyses of ceramic decoration give rise to a
reexamination of the data base especially with regard to the effects of secondary disturbances in the features. It can
be shown that the composition of a large number of mixed LBK-SBK inventories do not reflect a gradual change
over time. This fact impedes so far a joint BK ceramic seriation. Hence, in this paper only the SBK content of the
assemblages will be considered. An outline of the SBK settlement structure requires the incorporation of as many
features as possible in a typo-chronological sequence. At the outset of our researches, as a shortcut, a characteristic
had to be found which is chronologically relevant and occurs frequently. To achieve a broad basis for analysing
change in SBK decoration, the stroke sizes are examined by correspondence analysis. The resulting order which can
be interpreted as representing time shows in combination with the typo-chronological markers of the development
of BK houses the spatial distribution of probably coexistent houses. We can see a shift in settlement areas from late
LBK to early SBK, but the LBK settlement structure, consisting of house clusters and few single farmsteads remained
intact. In the late SBK house clusters are rare and pits lie far away from the houses. So far the studies all together
suggest that no fundamental change happened between late LBK and early SBK, but clearly there is one to be found in the late SBK structures.
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