Pfyn culture

The Pfyn Culture, named after the archaeological site Pfyn in Canton Thurgau is a Late Neolithic culture of the Alpine foreland, approximately 3900-3500 BC In the Pfyn Culture and the copper was already in use and has been both for jewelry as well as for tools ( ax blades ) used. Ötzi's ax differs only slightly from hatchets from the Pfyn Culture.

The Pfyn culture is on the southern edge of the late Michel Berger culture and is in the Lake Constance region of Hornstaader group. It also spreads to the eastern Swiss Plateau, where it replaces the Lake Zurich Cortaillod culture, for example. In Upper Swabia the Pfyn- Altheimer group forms the transition to Altheimer group in southern Bavaria. After 3500 BC influences the Boleraz phase of the Baden culture can be seen. The research results of the discovery site Arbon bleach 3 (3384-3370 BC) in Arbon - the number 3 refers to the third site on the banks of the now heavily silted bay - even put an immigration from the area of ​​Lower Austria / Slovakia / West Hungary close. For example, the two halves of the village in Arbon significant differences in the economic system that best can be explained by the fact that in one half of the village immigrants lived. Some features of the following Horgen culture can be explained by this eastern influence.

Pfyn is one of the cultures with moist soil settlements, which were also known as stilt houses. Typical of the Pfyn Culture are flat-bottomed, barely decorated vessels. One of the most studied places is the settlement Niederwil in the community Gachnang.

In 2007, the Swiss television the Pfyn Culture as an opportunity to return in the form of a Living -Science project ten people for one month in the Stone Age. (see Neolithics Pfyn )