The Linear Pottery site of Eschlipp (Eschlipp)
Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: Eschlipp
Start date : 21.07.2014
End date : 21.07.2015
Project details
Short description
The Linear Pottery settlement of Ebermannstadt-Eschlipp is located on the edge of the so called "Franconian Switzerland" in an area that is actually considered unfavorable for settlement by the first farmers in Central Europe. Since 1978, the private collector Jörg Hähnel has regularly delivered the stone artifacts and pottery sherds he collected at the site to the FAU's Prehistory and Protohistory Collection. Over the years, several thousand of artefacts were collected, so that the question arose as to the size and, above all, the function of this remote site: A place for the extraction of chert? A seasonal settlement for cattle herders? Or just a "normal" village in an uncomfortable terrain? In addition, the site is threatened by continued agricultural use.
https://www.uf.phil.fau.de/abteilungen/juengere-urgeschichte/projekte-der-juengeren-urgeschichte/die-bandkeramische-siedlung-von-eschlipp/
Scientific Abstract
The Linear Pottery settlement of
Ebermannstadt-Eschlipp is located on the edge of the so called
"Franconian Switzerland" in an area that is actually considered
unfavorable for settlement by the first farmers in Central Europe. Since
1978, the private collector Jörg Hähnel has regularly delivered the
stone artifacts and pottery sherds he collected at the site to the FAU's
Prehistory and Protohistory Collection. Over the years, several
thousand of artefacts were collected, so that the question arose as to
the size and, above all, the function of this remote site: A place for
the extraction of chert? A seasonal settlement for cattle herders? Or
just a "normal" village in an uncomfortable terrain? In addition, the
site is threatened by continued agricultural use.
https://www.uf.phil.fau.de/abteilungen/juengere-urgeschichte/projekte-der-juengeren-urgeschichte/die-bandkeramische-siedlung-von-eschlipp/
