Das ältere Neolithikum im westlichen Kraichgau, (Internationale Archäologie 53), 2001, 280 p., 124 ill.,176 pl., 13 cartes, 2 plans, en allemand avec résumé en anglais et en français. -

The loess landscape of the Kraichgau region has produced rich stray finds of the Linear Pottery which are now throughly published and investigated for the first time. The pottery analysis is based on technology, vessel shapes, and ornamental characteristics of rims and bands, and defines 8 stylistic phases. They last from the end of the oldest Linear Pottery until the youngest Linear Pootery with the highest density during the middle Linear Pottery. The pottery shows connections to Württemberg, from where the Kraichgau was first settled, and to Alsace, to where the Fraichgau Linear Pottery spread. Foreign types attest contacts with the Lilburg and Paris areas. The silices indicate a supply of raw material deteriorating towards the west and based on semi and end products from the Swabian Mountains.