MOVE - Mobility, Continuity and Transformations at the end of the 4th M BC. New results from the northern Alpine wetland sites Sutz-Lattrigen and Muntelier, Platzbünden (3400-2700 BC).

Schiess, Delphine; Gottardi, Corina; Scherrer, Adrian; Hafner, Albert (16 March 2023). MOVE - Mobility, Continuity and Transformations at the end of the 4th M BC. New results from the northern Alpine wetland sites Sutz-Lattrigen and Muntelier, Platzbünden (3400-2700 BC). (Unpublished). In: KIEL CONFERENCE. Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Kiel University. 13.-18.03.2023.

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The MOVE-project focuses on settlement interruptions, cultural continuity, and transformations as well as spatial mobility as resilience capacity of lakeshore settlement communities in circum-Alpine region at the end of the 4th M BC. Two sites located in the Three-Lakes-Region in western Switzerland are of major importance, “Sutz-Lattrigen” and “Muntelier, Platzbünden”. They encompass several dendrochronologically dated settlements from the so called “Horgen” and “Lüscherz” typo-chronological units dating between 3400 and 2700 BC. The “Muntelier, Platzbünden” site dates from 3229 BC to 3110 BC. In total 6862 pottery sherds, 502 stone axes and 1085 antler sleeves were found there. Since there is no reliable stratigraphy, the question arose whether the pottery can nevertheless be divided into younger and older objects, purely on the basis of typology. In order to answer this question, the pottery of “Muntelier” as well as the stone axes and antler sleeves were examined for their typology and compared with other contemporaneous settlements. The typology of the ceramics was furthermore used, to detect non-local pieces in search of mobility between contemporaneous adjacent settlements. At “Sutz-Lattrigen”, there are three lake shore settlements whose dendrochronological data gives precise information about the duration of the occupations as well as the interruptions between them. Our study deals with ceramics, stone axe blades and deer antler sleeves, as well as flint and textiles. The plan of the settlement of “Neue Station” makes it possible to reconstruct a horizontal stratigraphy and to separate the material by phase. We are thus able to study the occupations independently of each other but also in an interlinked manner to identify similarities and differences between them. Ceramics lend themselves particularly well to this exercise and can give us indications of changes in terms of pottery production practices. The biggest changes in terms of pottery typology comes after the long interruption of settlement activity between the “Horgen” and “Lüscherz” period. The typological changes are radical, but is this also the case at the technological level? Are the production habits completely different? On what points? Have the modalities in terms of mobility also changed? How is resilience reflected in these changes? These are all questions that this MOVE project seeks to answer.

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