Archaeological and botanical investigations of the Neolithic settlement dynamics in the Hegau and Western Lake Constance area (South-West Germany)

该项目应用考古和植被历史方法研究赫高和康斯坦茨湖西部地区景观中新石器时代定居模式（公元前5500年至2000年之间）的动态。因此，有必要将Hegau（最早的定居点可追溯到公元前6000年）与邻近的Western Lake Constance地区进行比较，在那里，湖泊住宅是公元前4000年后建立的定居点的第一个证据。这就引出了一个研究问题，即湖泊民居和湿地聚落是否是一个特殊的案例，因为它们的特殊保护条件或经济和文化原因。该研究集中在湖岸是否与Hegau同步定居或殖民是否在两个地区作为一种交替区独立发生的问题。在天气分析中，将采用地理信息系统的详细使用，以开发新石器时代土地利用的空间和时间区分模型。

This project studies the dynamics of Neolithic settlement pattern (between 5500 and 2000 BC) in the landscapes of the Hegau and Western Lake Constance region, applying archaeological and vegetation-historical methods. Therefore, it is essential to compare the Hegau, where the earliest settlements are dated to the 6th millennium BC, with the neighbouring Western Lake Constance region, where lake dwellings were the first evidence of settlements, which were established after 4000 BC. This leads to the research issue of whether lake dwellings and wetland settlements are a special case because of either their particular conservation conditions or economic and cultural reasons. The research concentrates on the question of whether lake shores were settled synchronised with the Hegau or whether colonisation took place independently in the two regions as a kind of alternate zone. In the synoptic analysis a detailed use of geographic information systems to develop space and time differentiated models of Neolithic land use will be adopted.