Hinkelstein culture
Introduction The '''Hinkelstein culture'''  is a Neolithic archaeological culture situated in  Rhine-Main and Rhenish Hesse, Germany.It is a Megalithic culture, part of the wider  Linear Pottery horizon, dating to approximately the 50th to 49th century BC.The culture's name is due to a suggestion of Karl Koehl of Worms (1900). ''Hinkelstein'' is the term for menhir in the local Hessian dialect, after a menhir discovered in 1866 in Monsheim. ''Hinkel'' is a Hessian term for "chicken"; the Standard German name for menhirs, ''Hünenstein'' "giants' stone", having  sometimes been jokingly mutated into ''Hühnerstein'' "chicken-stone".Hinklestein culture pottery
References *Jean-Paul Farrugia: ''Hinkelstein, explication d'une seriation'' (Coll Interreg. Neol. 1997), S. 467-517.*C. Koehl: ''Neue Stein- und frühmetallzeitliche Gräberfunde bei Worms.'' Korrbl. DAG 31, 1900, 137-142.*E. Probst: ''Deutschland in der Steinzeit'', München 1986*H. Spatz: ''Hinkelstein und Großgartach - Kontinuität und Wandel''. In AiD 3/1996 S. 8-13