A changing place: the Galgenberg in lower Bavaria from the fifth to the first millennium BC.

A changing place: the Galgenberg in lower Bavaria from the fifth to the first millennium BC. BARBARA S. OTTAWAY. A changing place: the Galgenberg in lowerBavaria Lower Bavaria (German: Niederbayern) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state. from the fifth to the first millennium BC (BAR InternationalSeries 752). xiii+289 pages, 177 figures, 87 tables, compact disc. 1999.Oxford: Archaeopress; 0-86054-950-X paperback 43 [pounds sterling]. The Galgenberg has witnessed many of the developments of the lastseven millennia. It is still a popular spot but/and it earned its namefrom a gallows GALLOWS. An erection on which to bang criminals condemned to death. . Soil marks and magnetometer survey revealed ditcheswhich Dr OTTAWAY has dated by excavation to the Middle and LateNeolithic and the Iron Age. The main occupations were in the latter twoperiods. The first of two Late Neolithic occupations was surrounded by aditch & palisade. The ditch and a couple of pits yielded plentifuldomestic debris. The second Neolithic occupation was protracted pro��tract?tr.v. pro��tract��ed, pro��tract��ing, pro��tracts1. To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: disputants who needlessly protracted the negotiations.2. . Thesite was enclosed by a ditch and bank. The entry and two phases offoreworks were studied intensively: whitewashed daub and loom loom,frame or machine used for weaving; there is evidence that the loom has been in use since 4400 B.C.Modern looms are of two types, those with a shuttle (the part that carries the weft through the shed) and those without; the latter draw the weft from a weightstestified to thriving households but a great many arrowheads were foundhere too and there were several conflagrations. Dr OTTAWAY argues thatthe Galgenberg is now a key site for the `Cham culture'. In theIron Age (later Hallstatt) period, there were six enclosures dating toat least two phases and including at least two homesteads. Whether onaccount of the comparative ease of reinvesting earlier features or (asDr OTTAWAY does suspect but without explaining adequately; cf. Hingleyin BEVAN, above) out of respect for predecessors, many of the ditchesexploited ditches and pits of the terminal Neolithic occupation. For thefinds, there are long reports on the pottery. There is a substantialsummary in German.