Hinkelstein culture
The Hinkelstein culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture situated in Rhine-Main and Rhenish Hesse, Germany. It is a Megalithic culture, part of the wider Linear Pottery horizon, dating to approximately the 50th to 49th century BC.
Map of Germany showing important sites that were occupied in the Hinkelstein culture (clickable map).
| Geographical range | Europe |
|---|---|
| Period | Neolithic Europe |
| Dates | circa 5,000 B.C.E. — circa 4,900 B.C.E. |
| Major sites | Rhine-Main, Rhenish Hesse |
| Preceded by | Linear Pottery culture |
The culture's name is due to a suggestion of Karl Koehl of Worms (1900). Hinkelstein is the term for menhir in the local Hessian dialect, after a menhir discovered in 1866 in Monsheim. Hinkel is a Hessian term for "chicken"; the Standard German name for menhirs, Hünenstein "giants' stone", having sometimes been jokingly mutated into Hühnerstein "chicken-stone".
References
- Jean-Paul Farrugia: Hinkelstein, explication d'une seriation (Coll Interreg. Neol. 1997), S. 467-517.
- C. Koehl: Neue Stein- und frühmetallzeitliche Gräberfunde bei Worms. Korrbl. DAG 31, 1900, 137-142.
- E. Probst: Deutschland in der Steinzeit, München 1986
- H. Spatz: Hinkelstein und Großgartach - Kontinuität und Wandel. In AiD 3/1996 S. 8-13
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