Internet Archaeol 4. Wansleeben & Verhart. The sites from the Beaker period

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6.7 The sites from the Beaker period

Guide artefacts used within the framework of the Meuse Valley Project for the entire Beaker period (2800-2000 BC) are the pottery (protruding foot, all over ornamented and bell beakers), battle axe, tanged points with straight wings, hollow base and triangular arrowheads with a full surface retouch. The table of the 20 'clean' sites from this phase (Table 15, below) indicates that almost all sites have been dated on the basis of the easily recognizable pottery. The number of sherds is not very large and some sites consist of a single 'isolated' beaker sherd. Only four sites lack pottery; here the presence of another guide artefact, the arrowheads, has lead to placement in this phase. Remarkably, there are in general few other artefacts beside the pottery, and only one site (52E-210) has eight different artefact types.

Table 15 Sites from the Beaker period, artefact numbers

SITE	LOC	DXV	ST_R	ST_K	BYL	BOR	NOT	KLOP	MAAL	KERN	KRB	RET	AARD	OVER	TOT	VAR
52B-130										1		1	2	30	34	4
52B-132		1													1	1
52B-227													5	4	9	2
52B-235											1	2	4	22	29	4
52B-287							1			2			1	27	31	4
52B-289						1							2	18	21	3
52D- 33			1											1	2	2
52E-143	v		1							1				5	7	3
52E-152	v												7		7	1
52E-154	v				1					2			3	20	26	4
52E-156											1		12		13	2
52E-161													1		1	1
52E-184													1		1	1
52E-187													1	11	12	2
52E-189											2		1	6	9	3
52E-210				1	3			1		1	2	4	1	73	86	8
52E-220													1		1	1
52E-221									1	1			1	2	5	4
52E-236		1													1	1
52E-241													35		35	1

where:
SITE= site number, LOC=location (v=field co-ordinates), DXV= triangular arrowhead with full surface retouch, ST_R=tanged arrowhead with straight wings, ST_K= tanged arrowhead with bended wings, BYL=axe, BOR=borer, NOT=flake or blade with notch, KLOP=hammer stone, MAAL=grinding stone, KERN=core, KRB=scraper, RET=retouched flake or blade, AARD=pottery, OVER=other artefacts, TOT=total number of artefacts, VAR=number of artefact types.