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Influence from the "Group-Rhin-Suisse-France orientale" on the pottery from the Late Bronze Age Urnfields in Western Belgium. A confrontation between pottery forming technology, 14C and typo-chronology

par De Mulder, Guy;Leclercq, Walter ;Van Strydonck, Mark
Editeur scientifique Berg, Ina
Référence Influence from the « Rhin-Suisse-France orientale » group on the pottery of the Late Bronze Urnfields in Western Belgium. A confrontation between 14C, study of the pottery manufacturing techniques and ceramic typochronology(6-8 octobre 2006: Manchester), Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through Pottery, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, Ed. 1, page (105-115)
Publication Publié, 2008

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Résumé :

In 1940 Kimmig published his theory on the Central-European urnfields. His view influenced the definition of the urnfields in western Europe and also the idea of the Flemish urnfieldgroup in western Belgium. In the 1980s the concept of the group ‘Rhin-Suisse-France orientale’ (RSFO) proposed that western Europe had come under the cultural influence from the central European region during the Late Bronze Age. A set of pottery types was defined as characteristic for the ‘group RSFO’. The presence of this group is attested in the Meuse valley in southeast Belgium. Study of the pottery production processes in western Belgium shows that the shapes are imitations of typical RSFO-pottery. The method of clay preparation, the tempering materials and the building techniques of the pots is different in western Belgium than in the core area of the group RSFO. The western Belgian chronology was established in comparison with the central European forms. The chronological validity of this typology is now being tested against dates derived from the cremated bones found in the urns. Preliminary results from two cemeteries do not confirm the typochronological framework in current use.