A NEW MODEL FOR THE INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF LBK SETTLEMENTS: THE SITE OF BISCHOFFSHEIM (DEP. BAS-RHIN/F) AND THE ``ORTHOGONAL MODEL''

The spatial analysis of the Neolithic village of Bischoffsheim led to the development of a new model of internal organisation of the Linear Pottery culture settlements based on a series of precisely dated houses and on a Bayesian modelling of numerous radiocarbon dates. The ``orthogonal model'', similar in principle to the Hofplatz model but also reflecting the row organisation observed at many sites, proposes the partition of the village, which displays a regular division into quadrangular lots with successive buildings. These were rebuilt repeatedly (approximately every quarter of a century) by the same social unit.