A later fifth-millennium cal BC tumulus at Hofheim-Kapellenberg, Germany. (June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gronenborn, Detlef; Thiemeyer, Heinrich; Cramer, Anja; Antunes, Nicolas; Neubauer, Dieter; Pétrequin, Pierre
• Is Part Of: Antiquity. Volume 94:Number 375(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-06
• Subjects: Germany, -- Brittany, -- Michelsberg, -- Neolithic, -- jade axe-head, -- burial; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Antiquities -- Periodicals; 930.05
• DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2020.79
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-598X

Abstract

Abstract: Abstract : In the nineteenth century, two Neolithic axe-heads were reported from the Michelsberg enclosure system at Kapellenberg. The recent identification of an unusually large tumulus, from which the axe-heads were almost certainly once recovered, reveals that socio-political hierarchisation, linked to the emergence of high-ranking elites in Brittany and the Paris Basin during the fifth millennium cal BC, may have extended into Central Europe.