Neolithic Transformations on the Northern Central European Plain (C01)

• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290391021

Project C1 investigates Neolithic transformations in the 3rd millennium BCE of Northern Central Europe, focussed on the southern Cimbrian peninsula. Building on previous discoveries, regions with dispersed settlement areas, agglomerated mega-settlements and palisade enclosures as communicative places from the Middle and Late Neolithic in the North German lowlands and Southern Scandina-via will be further investigated in order to fathom cultural transformation processes. Additionally, the transformation to the Late Neolithic in the same area and its connection to the agricultural change will be studied, including the comparison of developments in southern Sweden and northern Germany.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1266: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Project Heads: Dr. Sönke Hartz, until 6/2020; Professorin Dr. Cheryl Makarewicz, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Johannes Müller