In 2015, a domed oven from the late fifth millennium cal BC was excavated near Kortrijk, northern Belgium. In terms of its size, tripartite structure, stone flooring and well-preserved domed combustion chamber, the oven is unique in Neolithic Western Europe, although mostly smaller, less well-preserved parallels are known in northern France. Such features are thought to have appeared in Western Europe in the Early to Middle Neolithic periods (post-Linearbandkeramik Culture). Their appearance and possible use for drying cereals may be related to a change from individual (household) to communal processing of cereals, and/or indicate adaptation to a wetter climate by newly settled agro-pastoralist communities.
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Teetaert, D., Baeyens, N., Perdaen, Y., Fiers, G., De Kock, T., Allemeersch, L., … Crombé, P. (2019). A well-preserved Michelsberg Culture domed oven from Kortrijk, Belgium. Antiquity, 93(368), 342–358. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.181
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