Arnoldsweiler-Ellebach
DFG-Projekt "Siedlung und Gräberfeld des linearbandkeramischen Fundplatzes Arnoldsweiler-Ellebach"
Team: Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, Prof. Dr. Renate Gerlach, Robin Peters M.A., Nadia Balkowski M.A., Marie-Christine Metternich B.A.
Universität zu Köln
Insitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Weyertal 125
50923 Köln
E-Mail: lbk-arnoldsweiler@uni-koeln.de
Tel: 0221 - 470 6775
- Siedlung, Brunnen und Keramikfunde (Nadia Balkowski)
- Gräberfeld, Erdwerk und Steinartefakte (Robin Peters)
- Nutzungsdauer und Besiedlungsintensität der Siedlung
- Belegungsdauer und -dichte des Gräberfeldes
- Identifizierung von mögl. Gruppen in Siedlung und Gräberfeld
- Wasserversorgung am Fundplatz
- Bezug des Erdwerks zu den restlichen Fundplatzbereichen
Abstract
Settlements and cemeteries of the Linear Pottery Culture have often been investigated in different archaeological projects and in isolation. Therefore, the project aims at shedding light on the relationship between these two kinds of archaeological feature types. The site of Arnoldsweiler-Ellebach (district Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia) is most suitable for this task due to its unusual combination of archaeological features, which include graves, houses, wells and an earthwork enclosure.The archaeological finds and features will be analyzed using a standardized, quantitative approach and contextualized within Geographical Information Systems. Subsequently, the recorded data are evaluated applying methods of multivariate statistics and spatial analyses. An important task is to establish links between the different subareas (settlement, cemetery, well, and enclosure) of the site. Besides these intra-site analyses, we reconstruct the site's integration in regional and supra-regional social networks.This research project is the first of two, both aiming at a comprehensive analysis of the Linear Pottery Culture complex of Arnoldsweiler-Ellebach. The second project is designed to focus on geoarchaeological and scientific analyses.