Crombé, Philippe

Denis, Solene

Halbrucker, Éva

Messiaen, Liesbeth

Meylemans, Erwin

A recent exhaustive analysis of lithic assemblages from four wetland sites belonging to the 5th and early 4th millennium cal BC, all situated in the Lower-Scheldt basin of NW Belgium (East Flanders), has revealed the presence of numerous faceted tools. Unknown prior to the 5th millennium, these tools constitute a totally new type of tool within hunter-gatherer contexts of the Scheldt basin. Typologically, they seem to resemble similar tools found within Early Neolithic contexts in northern France and Belgium, suggesting some kind of connection between the last hunter-gatherers from the sandy lowlands and the first farmer-herders from the loess area. Within this paper, faceted tools from both communities will be presented and discussed in the light of the neolithization process of the Scheldt basin. For the first time, a large scale use-wear analysis was conducted on these artefacts

Faceted tools within indigenous hunter-gatherer assemblages of NW Belgium: evidence of forager-farmer contact during the 5th millennium cal BC

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