- Cortaillod culture
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Cortaillod culture Geographical range Valais, West and Central Switzerland. Period Later Neolithic Dates 3900-3500 BC Preceded by Classic Cortaillod, Early Cortaillod Followed by Horgen culture The Cortaillod culture is one of several archaeologically defined cultures belonging to the Neolithic period of Switzerland. The Cortaillod Culture in the west of the region is contemporary with the Pfyn Culture in the east and dates from between 3900-3500 BC. The Classic Cortaillod Culture of the western Alpine foreland and the Early Cortaillod Culture of central Switzerland pre-date this at 4300-3900 BC.
Evidence such as higher frequencies of dog bones and pendants made from dog metapodials suggests a special relationship between dog and man during the later part of this period in the western part and the early Horgen culture in the eastern part of the Alpine foreland.
Sources
Schibler, J. 2006. The economy and environment of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in the northern Alpine foreland based on studies of animal bones. Environmental Archaeology 11(1): 49-64
Neolithic Europe (including the Chalcolithic) ↑ Mesolithic Europe ↑ Horizons - Cardial Ware
- Corded Ware culture
- First Temperate Neolithic
- Linear Pottery culture (LBK)
Cultures - Baden culture
- Beaker culture
- Boian culture
- Chasséen culture
- Cortaillod culture
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
- Dudeşti culture
- Funnelbeaker culture
- Gaudo culture
- Globular Amphora culture
- Hamangia culture
- Karanovo culture
- Lengyel culture
- Pitted Ware culture
- Pfyn culture
- Rössen culture
- Seine-Oise-Marne culture
- Starčevo-Kőrös-Criş culture
- Tisza culture
- Tiszapolgár culture
- Varna culture
- Vinča culture
- Vučedol culture
- Wartberg culture
- Windmill Hill culture
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