The Danubian farm
Replica of a settlement discovered in a place called Petite Rosière in Blicquy (excavations 1972-1981), the Danubian farm is a community house from the early Neolithic. Under the form of a rectangle, it presents, architecturally speaking, a series of three posts or three parts that support the roof and delimit a series of linked rooms.
The central room where people lived in clans but not in families has got a slightly digged fireplace into the ground, a stoneware millstone, a terracotta baker’s oven and a litter which is a seat made of clay and covered with sheepskins. Two openings down the roof make the extraction of smoke and fire draught easier.
A paddock sheltered the animals in winter and an outdoor workshop for cutting silex, sheltered under an awning, supplied with various lithic tools: awls, arrowheads, scrapers, gravers, sticklestrips, etc …. The roof is covered with thatch and reed and the walls are made of wattle (interlacing of thin hazel tree branches) covered with cob (a mixture of clay and straw).
And finally the rounded bottom pieces of pottery with their incised ribbon patterns are made in accordance with the claycoil technique which is peculiar to the Danubien’s own decoration technique.
The central room where people lived in clans but not in families has got a slightly digged fireplace into the ground, a stoneware millstone, a terracotta baker’s oven and a litter which is a seat made of clay and covered with sheepskins. Two openings down the roof make the extraction of smoke and fire draught easier.
A paddock sheltered the animals in winter and an outdoor workshop for cutting silex, sheltered under an awning, supplied with various lithic tools: awls, arrowheads, scrapers, gravers, sticklestrips, etc …. The roof is covered with thatch and reed and the walls are made of wattle (interlacing of thin hazel tree branches) covered with cob (a mixture of clay and straw).
And finally the rounded bottom pieces of pottery with their incised ribbon patterns are made in accordance with the claycoil technique which is peculiar to the Danubien’s own decoration technique.
