Cortaillod culture

The Cortaillod culture is part of Chassey- Lagozza - Cortaillod culture and one of the numerous archaeological cultures of the Neolithic in the culturally fragmented articulated Switzerland. It follows the Néolithique ancien valasian or the La - Hoguette group or the Egolzwiler culture and was partly coinciding with the Pfyn Culture. In some regions, but it was superseded by the latter. The classic Cortaillod Central Switzerland took about 4300-3900 BC, in the western part of its range by the trailing Cortaillod tardif rather 3900-3500 BC The type Cortaillod Port- Conty on Lake Neuchâtel is as high as 3,300 BC

At the Lake Zug previously oldest lakeside settlement in Switzerland was discovered in the 1990s, to 4350-4000 BC and dated on the basis of pottery finds the Cortaillod, or even older Egolzwil culture associated ( AiD 1999/2 ). Among the most outstanding finds of Cham - Eslen a perforated double ax from serpentinite heard with a wrapped with birch bark shaft. Elsewhere, there were a relatively high number of dog bones, which suggests a close relationship at the end of the Cortaillod culture between humans and animals. Cortaillod and Pfyn culture was superseded by the Horgen culture.