Monumental knowledge - construction and use, spatial positioning and functions of Middle Neolithic roundels in Northern bavaria and Central Germany

该项目致力于通过勘探和挖掘来调查两个新石器时代中期的圆形围栏Hopferstadt（巴伐利亚州的Wyndham）和Quedlinburg I（萨克森-安哈尔特州的HZ）。目的是重建其建造和使用的历史，并获得有关围栏功能的新证据（模块1和2）。在模块3中，他们在景观中的设置，堤道门对地标和/或天文方位角（日落/日出在至点/春分点，上升/明亮的星星集）的可能取向进行了分析的地理信息系统和结果进行了比较，与其他德国圆形外壳相同的时代。模块3（PhD Thesis C）Michel）将于2016年底完成。在2015年夏季活动中，对奎德林堡I号西南门进行了调查，该门在2003年的磁性勘探中几乎不可见。新石器时代和现代的表面浮雕有很大的差异。假定的闸门可以定位，但显示部分被高达1.4 m厚的崩积层覆盖。这些崩积层包含许多坑和其他特征，他的前罗马和罗马铁器时代。由于南部只能在小的表面探测中记录，Landesam für Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt在我们自己的2016年夏季活动之前提供了一个挖掘活动，以清除SW门区域的铁器时代层。但由于预算限制，这一提议未能实现。因此，我们不得不在今年夏天重新分配内部资金，以进行必要的更长时间的挖掘。位于霍普弗施塔特的另一个围栏场地的挖掘工作已于2016年春季完成，发现物的处理进展顺利。然而，发现的数量超出了我们的预期。系统地寻找来自不同背景的陶器之间的连接碎片被证明是非常成功的，并为埋藏过程提供了新的见解。与此同时，而不是随机沉积的解决废物，一个相当谨慎的模式，仪式沉积的做法，建议之前放弃的网站。可比的改装尝试和埋藏分析的发现仍然有待作出的最后两次挖掘活动在奎德林堡。但也有加入碎片已被发现，其中链接功能在高达50米的距离。然而，要进行这些必要的和有希望的分析工作并编写最后出版物，要到2017年3月才可行。因此，我们申请第六年也是最后一年的资助，截止日期为2018年3月31日。

The project is devoted to the investigation of two Middle Neolithic circular enclosures Hopferstadt (WÜ, Bavaria) and Quedlinburg I (HZ, Saxony-Anhalt) by prospections and excavations. The objective ist o reconstruct their history of construction and use and to get new evidence as to the functions oft he enclosures (module 1 & 2). In module 3 their setting in the landscape, possible orientations of the causewayed gates towards landmarks and / or astronomical azimuths (sunset/sunrise at solstices / equinoxes, rise / set of bright stars) is analysed by a Geographical Information System and the results are compared to other German circular enclosures of the same epoch. Module 3 (PhD thesis C. Michel) will be accomplished until the end of 2016.In the summer campaign 2015 the SW gate of Quedlinburg I was investigated, which had been hardly visible in the magnetic prospection of 2003. A massive discrepancy betweeen the neolithic and modern surface relief has been discovered. The assume gate could be located, but showed to be partially covered by colluvial layers amounting to as much as 1.4 m thickness. These colluvial layers contained many pits and other features oft he pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age. Since the southern part could only be documented in small surface soundings, the Landesam für Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt offered an excavation campaign ahead of our own summer campaign 2016 to remove the Iron Age layers in the area oft he SW gate. Unfortunately, due to budget restrictions, this offer could not be realised. So that we had to redirect funds internally to perform the necessary longer excavation this summer.The excavavionts at the other enclosure site at Hopferstadt have been finished in spring 2016, the processing of finds has proceeded sufficiently well. The amount of finds, however, turned out to surpass our expectations. The systematic search for joining fragments among the pottery from different contexts proved to be very successful and gave new insights into the taphonomic processes. Meanwhile, instead of random deposition of settlement waste, a rather deliberate pattern of ritual deposition practices is suggested before the abandonment of the site.Comparable refitting attempts and taphonomic analyses of the finds still remain to be made for the last two excavation campaigns at Quedlinburg. But also there joining sherds have been dicovered which link features at up to 50 m distance. To be able to perform these necessary and promising analytical work and to prepare the final publication will, however, not be feasible until March 2017. Therefore we apply for a sixth and final year of funding, ending 31.03.2018.