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. The culture's name is due to a suggestion of 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".
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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. The culture's name is due to a suggestion of 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".
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Map of Germany showing important sites that were occupied in the Hinkelstein culture .
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circa 5,000 B.C.E. — circa 4,900 B.C.E.
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The Hinkelstein culture is a N ...... o Hühnerstein "chicken-stone".
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