Langweiler (archaeological site)

Bore 8, community Aldenhoven, Düren (short LW 8) is a LBK finds place in the meantime abgebaggerten community bore in the lignite mine future - West in the Lower Rhine bay between Aachen and Cologne. The village bore belonged together with Laurenzberg, Lürken and upper Merz to the parish Laurenzberg.

Excavations

The excavations on the Aldenhovener plate were begun in 1965 by Rudolf Kuper, after Hartmut Löhr by reading discoveries had numerous Neolithic settlements can prove. Since 1968, trained at the University of Cologne, a working group that examined habitats at the edge of the excavator edge. As active here are particularly Petar Stehli, Rudolf Kuper and Jens Lüning mentioned. The excavations were supported by the State Conservation Office and the operator of the mine. There were excavated on 10 hectares 98 LBK houses, earthwork and 1619 Bandkeramik pits, of whom received 623 finds. Many interpretations of the Linear Pottery Culture settlement structure based on the analysis of this Fund space. So Ulrich Boelicke developed on the basis of report distribution and compositions Fund to house the so-called 17 yard model that a Pottery House assigns certain pits and this is also the chronology of the Untermerzbach Tales of a seriation of the settlement pits basis. Thereafter pits that lie in an arbitrary radius of 25 m around a house floor plan associated with it. Boelicke assumes that north of the houses were mainly processed flint, while mainly pottery shards are found in the south.

Jens Lüning speaks in this context of a courtyard, interpreted this area as an economic sector that is a Pottery House. However, this is not supported by further studies.

In slowpoke 8 identified Boelicke 203 longitudinal pits which extend on both sides of the Linear Pottery houses, 46 Western, 39 Eastern, 13 northern and 20 other mines. Other so -called "free pits " could not be assigned house. But it is precisely these pits, which contain an average of at most shrapnel, which relies on the dating in the LBK.

Location

The early 1970s redirected Untermerzbach is a tributary of the Rur. It drains the Aldenhovener plate to the northeast. Bore 8 is 134-124 m above sea level on a gently sloping hillside on the western edge of the Merz Bach. The local substrate consists today of a Luvisol on terrace gravels of the Weichsel ice age, probably in Altneolithikum but have consisted of a black soil from loess.

Chronology

The colonization of bore 8 starts in the older Pottery ( Flomborn ) or stage I according to Modderman. It is the oldest settlement on the Aldenhovener plate.

Function

Due to the flint raw material Andreas Zimmermann assumes that bore 8 the other settlements of the Merzbachtals with Silex supplied ( redistribution ). The earthwork is according to the common chronology at the end of settlement development. It contains no postholes of houses, but only pits. Perhaps this is but also due to the poor state of preservation on the relatively steep slope on the eastern edge of the settlement. To date, the interpretation of " central place " in the sense of Walter Christaller's based solely on the Silexrohmaterialien.