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<< Text Pages >> Püchitz Neolithic Village - Ancient Village or Settlement in Germany in Bavaria

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Püchitz Neolithic Village
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 9.867 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Bavaria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bad Staffelstein  Nearest Village: Püchitz
Latitude: 50.150000N  Longitude: 10.938000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village in Bavaria.
6000BC to 5000BC Neolithic village in the era when hunter gathers settled into a herding and farming lifestyle. The area of the settlement covers 5 acres, and includes the floor plans of 18 buildings, portions of a palisade, tombs, pottery and tools.

Many of the portions of the site that were excavated will be covered by the right of way of the Berlin-Nuremberg ICE train line. Access is unknown and presumed to be on private property and transport easements.

Note: "Nice Place You've Got Here. Me and the Cow are Taking Over..." How Middle Eastern Milk Drinkers Conquered Europe.
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ICE Line Reveals a Glimpse of the Stone Age by bat400 on Saturday, 30 October 2010
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Moderne Technik trifft Steinzeit. Unter der künftigen ICE-Strecke Nürnberg-Erfurt liegen die Reste der ersten Siedlungen in Franken. Die Ausgrabungen bei Bad Staffelstein geben die Sicht frei auf die Anfänge der menschlichen Zivilisation.

Größer könnte der Kontrast nicht sein: Beiderseits des Tals treiben Spezialmaschinen zwei Tunnel für die ICE-Strecke Nürnberg-Erfurt voran. Dazwischen legen Archäologen mit Schaufeln und Spaten Reste einer Siedlung aus der Jungsteinzeit frei. Die Epoche der Bandkeramik vor mehr als 7000 Jahren markiert einen bedeutenden Einschnitt in der Menschheitsgeschichte, den Wechsel von den nomadisierenden Jägern und Sammlern hin zu den sesshaften Bauern.

Modern technology meets Stone Age. On the future ICE-Nuremberg-Erfurt line, the remains of the first settlements are found in Franconia. The excavations at Bad Staffelstein show the beginnings of human civilization.

The contrast could not be greater: On both sides of the valley are special machines driving two tunnels for the ICE-Nuremberg-Erfurt. In between lay archaeologists with shovels and spades excavating a settlement from the Neolithic period. The era of the Linear Pottery more than 7,000 years ago marked a significant turning point in human history, the change from nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled farmers.

For more, see http://www.nordbayern.de/nuernberger-zeitung/ice-strecke-gibt-blick-in-die-steinzeit-frei-1.121986.
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How Middle Eastern Milk Drinkers Conquered Europe by bat400 on Saturday, 30 October 2010
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New research has revealed that agriculture came to Europe amid a wave of immigration from the Middle East during the Neolithic period. The newcomers won out over the locals because of their sophisticated culture, mastery of agriculture -- and their miracle food, milk.

Wedged in between dump trucks and excavators, archeologist Birgit Srock is drawing the outline of a 7,200-year-old posthole. A concrete mixing plant is visible on the horizon. She is here because, during the construction of a high-speed rail line between the German cities of Nuremberg and Berlin, workers happened upon a large Neolithic settlement in the Upper Franconia region of northern Bavaria.

The remains of more than 40 houses were unearthed, as well as skeletons, a spinning wheel, bulbous clay vessels, cows' teeth and broken sieves for cheese production -- a typical settlement of the so-called Linear Pottery culture (named after the patterns on their pottery).

This ancient culture provided us with the blessing of bread baking. At around 5300 BC, everyone in Central Europe was suddenly farming and raising livestock. The members of the Linear Pottery culture kept cows in wooden pens, used rubbing stones and harvested grain. Within less than 300 years, the sedentary lifestyle had spread to the Paris basin.

The reasons behind the rapid shift have long been a mystery. Was it an idea that spread through Central Europe at the time, or an entire people?

Many academics felt that the latter was inconceivable. Agriculture was invented in the Middle East, but many researchers found it hard to believe that people from that part of the world would have embarked on an endless march across the Bosporus and into the north.

Jens Lüning, a German archaeologist who specializes in the prehistoric period, was influential in establishing the conventional wisdom on the developments, namely that a small group of immigrants inducted the established inhabitants of Central Europe into sowing and milking with "missionary zeal." The new knowledge was then quickly passed on to others. This process continued at a swift pace, in a spirit of "peaceful cooperation," according to Lüning.

But now doubts are being raised on that explanation. New excavations in Turkey, as well as genetic analyses of domestic animals and Stone Age skeletons, paint a completely different picture:

* At around 7000 BC, a mass migration of farmers began from the Middle East to Europe.
* These ancient farmers brought along domesticated cattle and pigs.
* There was no interbreeding between the intruders and the original population.

The new settlers also had something of a miracle food at their disposal. They produced fresh milk, which, as a result of a genetic mutation, they were soon able to drink in large quantities. The result was that the population of farmers grew and grew.

These striking insights come from biologists and chemists. In a barrage of articles in professional journals like Nature and BMC Evolutionary Biology, they have turned many of the prevailing views upside down over the course of the last three years. The most important group is working on the "Leche" project, an association of 13 research institutes in seven European Union countries. The goal of the project is to genetically probe the beginnings of butter, milk and cheese.

An unusual circumstance has made this research possible in the first place. Homo sapiens was originally unable to digest raw milk. Generally, the human body only produces an enzyme that can break down lactose in the small intestine during the first few years of life. Indeed, most adults in Asia and Africa react to cow's milk with nausea, flatulence and diarrhea.

But the situation is different in Europe, where many people carry a minute modification of chromosome 2 that enables them to digest lactose throughout their life without experiencing intestinal problems. The percentage of people with t

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    Re: How Middle Eastern Milk Drinkers Conquered Europe by davidmorgan on Sunday, 31 October 2010
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    "At around 7000 BC, a mass migration of farmers began from the Middle East to Europe."

    I wonder if this is related to the flooding of the Black Sea at about the same time.
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