Ertebølle (jan 1, 5300 BC – jan 1, 3950 BC)
Description:
Ertebølle, Denmark (The Human Past, 412)- Latest Mesolithic communities
- They adopted pottery making around 4500 BC
- Living sites: both large coastal settlements (permanent?) and smaller seasonal camps.
→ special-purpose sites dedicated to
hunting seals or swans
- Social complexity
>- Cementires: differential treatment of the dead, > may indicate social ranking.
- long-term contact without agriculture adoption
-Disappeared after c.4000 BC, replaces by Early Neolithic groups of the Trichterbecher culture
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 5300 BC
jan 1, 3950 BC
~ 1350 years