Compilation of different data sets of the Late Neolithic wetland site of Pestenacker and of the adjacent valley depositions

Anne Köhler; Anneli Wanger O'Neill; Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer; Franz Herzig; Birgit Schneider; Steven Nebel; Ulrike Werban; Marco Pohle; Manuel Kreck; Peter Dietrich; Lukas Werther; Detlef Gronenborn; Stefanie Berg; Christoph Zielhofer

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108481

Compilation of different data sets of the Late Neolithic wetland site of Pestenacker and of the adjacent valley depositions

Data Brief. 2022 Jul 22:43:108481. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108481. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
² Bavarian State Department for Cultural Heritage (BLfD), Munich, Germany.
³ Dendroarchaeological Laboratory of Bavarian State Department for Cultural Heritage, Thierhaupten, Germany.
⁴ Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
⁶ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology, Mainz, Germany.

Abstract

This document contains data sets of the valley depositions of the Loosbach valley and data of the Late Neolithic wetland site of Pestenacker. It consists of raw data and graphical figures of direct push-based electrical conductivity and colour logs and driving core recoveries as well as hand drilling recoveries presented by Köhler et al. [1]. We reviewed unpublished archaeological profiles to determine the incision levels of former stream phases at Pestenacker site. Here, we provide the new, reusable and accessible data set. The data sets and figures of the valley depositions can be used for further analyses, including statistical ones, to improve the methods of the direct-push sensing and to compare it with the sedimentological features recovered from driving core and hand drillings. In addition, the data set is useful for further issues in Pestenacker as well as in the whole central Europe. Especially in the circum-Alpine region, as a comparison with other pile dwellings or stilt houses built from the Neolithic to the Bronce Age.

Keywords: Neolithic settlement; Pestenacker; direct push sensing; driving core drilling; electrical conductivity; southern Germany.