Southern Germany and Switzerland near Lake Constance, Rhine river basin.
Period
Later Neolithic, Chalcolithic
Dates
3,500–2,850 BC
Characteristics
simple pottery, well-developed stone tools, lake shore settlements
Preceded by
Pfyn culture, Cortaillod culture
Followed by
Corded Ware culture, Bell Beaker culture
See also: Neolithic Switzerland, Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, and Ötzi
The Horgen culture is one of several archaeological cultures belonging to the Neolithic period of Switzerland. The Horgen culture may derive from the Pfyn culture and early Horgen pottery is similar to the earlier Cortaillod culture pottery of Twann, Switzerland.[1] It is named for one of the principal sites, in Horgen, Switzerland.
^Comparative Archeology Web Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine accessed 28 June 2010
merged into the municipality of Horgen. Horgen is also the type-site of Switzerland's middle Neolithic archaeological culture. The settlement there, the so-called...
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker...
of Lake Zurich. Four layers of Pfyn culture artifacts (4350-3950 BC calibrated) are followed by five Horgenculture layers were found at Feldmeilen. In...
Bronze Age. Corded Ware culture encompassed a vast area, from the contact zone between the Yamnaya culture and the Corded Ware culture in south Central Europe...
period in the western part and the early Horgenculture in the eastern part of the Alpine foreland. The culture is named for the village of Cortaillod in...
archaeological exhibition Horgenculture, fragment of ceramics Horgenculture, fragment of a shafted stone axe Horgenculture, silex knife and stone arrowheads...
site. Probably the majority of the important sites of the so-called Horgenculture are situated on lakeshore, including Grosser Hafner on a former lake...
Twann-Tüscherz). In the Twannbach delta there were about 25 Cortaillod culture and Horgenculture villages that existed between 3800 and 2950 BC. One of the oldest...
The Comb Ceramic culture or Pit-Comb Ware culture, often abbreviated as CCC or PCW, was a northeast European culture characterised by its Pit–Comb Ware...
from the 8th millennium BC, which was found in Brand by Lungern. Two Horgenculture sites from the 4th millennium BC have been found in the Canton. An ax...
Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich Cortaillod cultureHorgenculture Pfyn culture Clairvaux-les-Lacs UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric...
The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (German: Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Dutch: Trechterbekercultuur; Danish: Tragtbægerkultur; c...
The Pitted Ware culture (c. 3500 BC–c. 2300 BC) was a hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, mainly along the coasts of Svealand, Götaland,...
the usage and creation of copper tools by the Goldberg III culture and the Horgenculture with the earliest wheel discoveries had become widespread in...
The Karanovo culture (Bulgarian: Карановска култура, romanized: Karanovska kultura) is a Neolithic culture (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries...
the practitioners of Nordic megalith architecture, the Wartberg culture and Horgenculture, used several variants, that are also found in other megalithic...
known as the Grooved ware people. Unlike the later Beaker ware, Grooved culture was not an import from the continent but seems to have developed in Orkney...
by the 'Jordanow/Jordansmühler culture'. It is followed by the Funnelbeaker culture/TrB culture and the Baden culture. The eponymous type site is at Lengyel...
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German...
Global Information