A well-preserved Michelsberg Culture domed oven from Kortrijk, Belgium

• Autores: Dimitri Teetaert, Nathalie Baeyens, Yves Perdaen, Géraldine Fiers, Tim De Kock, Luc Allemeersch, Mathieu Boudin, Philippe Crombé
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 93, Nº 368, 2019, págs. 342-358
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2015, a domed oven from the late fifth millennium cal BC was excavated near Kortrijk, northern Belgium. In terms of its size, tripartite structure, stone flooring and well-preserved domed combustion chamber, the oven is unique in Neolithic Western Europe, although mostly smaller, less well-preserved parallels are known in northern France. Such features are thought to have appeared in Western Europe in the Early to Middle Neolithic periods (post-Linearbandkeramik Culture). Their appearance and possible use for drying cereals may be related to a change from individual (household) to communal processing of cereals, and/or indicate adaptation to a wetter climate by newly settled agro-pastoralist communities.