Arbeitsteilung und Residenzregeln als Erklärungsansatz für die Verbreitung von Keramikformen und -verzierungen am Beispiel doppelkonischer Gefäße aus Megalithgräbern

Abstract

Handmade pottery from megalithic graves is perfectly appropriate to investigate female spaces of communication and interaction. Ethnographic parallels show, that it was mostly women who produced pottery in early farming societies. For three time slices (3500-3300, 3300-3050 and 3050-2800 BC), different dynamics can be discovered. During these three periods, communication structures are on the one hand remaining constantly, on the other hand changing.
The choice of residence of these pottery-makers caused traditions and changes in female communication structures, as it can be seen from a spatial-statistical analysis of 74 well-preserved biconical pots.