Claßen, Erich
Siedlungen der Bandkeramik bei Königshoven
Based on almost 40 years of archaeological field research in the lignite open-cast mine near Garzweiler, this multi-award-winning doctoral thesis analyses 15 settlements of the first farmers in the Rhineland. The focus is on settlement development and structures, which enable, among other things, model calculations on land use. Other economic and social aspects are - based on archaeological finds - examined in the work using methods of Social Network Analysis. They reveal changes in the structures within early farming society - i.e. social change - that was a decisive factor in its demise.
Zwischen zwei Rittergütern: eine hochmittelalterliche Hofstelle in Mönchengladbach-Wanlo
This volume publishes the excavation report on a 10th to 13th century farmstead near Mönchengladbach-Wanlo in the administrative district of Düsseldorf. The excavation revealed a section of a typical of typical High Medieval rural settlement with loosely scattered structures in the form of ground-level post buildings and with one type of building set into the ground, accompanied by pits, two wells and a type of oven common in the Rhineland. The farmstead area, enclosed by ditches, was located on an old pathway east of the upper Niers, about halfway between the former knights' residences in Wanlo and Keyenberg to the south.
The site was discovered during the planned construction of the new L354n state road between Wanlo and Erkelenz-Kahlhausen in the course of the opencast mining at Garzweiler. RWE Power AG commissioned the company Archaeonet in Bonn to carry out the project in compliance with the measures of the monument protection authorities.
