Rössen culture
Cultura de Rössen
- Date
- 1900 · confidence low
- Place
- Leuna, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Credited to
- Alfred Götze
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Central European Middle Neolithic culture (c. 4600-4300 BC), defined from the necropolis of Rössen, in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
What it led to
- helped structure the chronological sequence of the Central European Neolithic
- served as a reference for classifying later Neolithic sites in Germany
- documented funerary practices and materials characteristic of the Middle Neolithic