Michelsberg and Wartberg Ceramic Thin Sections in Comparison – An Approach

Abstract

The comparison between the pottery of the Younger and Late Neolithic in Central Germany is the focus of the present study. For this purpose, the production process of pottery material from the Michelsberg culture and the chronologically following Wartberg group from the settlements Warburg-Ossendorf ’Gaulskopf‘, district of Höxter, and Wittelsberg 7, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf, are compared with each other. Based on thin section studies of the pottery, there are indications that there was a break in the pottery development around 3000 BC, which correlates with further social transformation processes.