On Saturday, September 2nd, 1989, when I cycled from Vienna to pay a visit to my parents in Mödling, I had no idea that this trip would be decisive for my future life for over thirty years. In the black excavation heaps created by road construction, I discovered sherds of the earliest Linear Pottery Cultureon my route in the area of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz; we named the area later site 1. A short time afterwards, we discovered sites 2 and 3 a few hundred meters to the south, making this the first time that the previously unrecognized mega-site of Brunn came under the spotlight of prehistoric research.
From 2007 onward, Nadezhda Kotova assisted me with the evaluation of ceramics, which had accumulated from 1989 – 2005 during numerous excavation campaigns. I owe her many hanks in regards to us finally finishing this opus magnum for the Brunn 2 site.
The special thing about Brunn 2 is the fact that here the Linearbandkeramik can be observed in a place at its origin during the Formative phase. Nadezhda once asked me from where I believed that the Brunn settlers had come. The cultures involved are the Early Neolithics, Star?evo and Körös and the Linear Pottery Culture (LPC), in German Linearbandkeramik (LBK). I pointed spontaneously to the southeast, thinking first of southern Hungary, Serbia and Croatia. In fact, as we have shown, there was a high percentage of the Star?evo culture that contributed to Brunn 2. But during the investigation of the musical instruments, the amphorae, the idols and other vessel shapes, our eyes turned even further to the southeast, as far as western Bulgaria and even the northwest Anatolian Lake District around Hac?lar.
Brunn 2 is the oldest site that we present completely in volumes 1a, 1b and 1c, as far as ceramics are concerned. Further volumes on ceramics are planned in the chronological order of sites 3, 4, and 1 together with 6. Afterwards, a book about 3D reconstructions of the houses of all sites in the form of a PhD thesis and another about lithic materials are planned. So much still remains to be done.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Part a:

Chapter 1
Roman SAUER, Peter STADLER:
• Setting of the Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Geology and Soil Types

Chapter 2
Matthias KUCERA, Alexander MINNICH, Peter STADLER:
• The Topographical Situation around the Linear Pottery Culture Sites of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 3
Peter STADLER:
• Excavation History of the Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Sites (Area 01 to 19)

Chapter 4
Peter STADLER:
• Total Station Surveying Maps and Aerial Photos of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 5
Peter STADLER:
• Magnetic Investigation for Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, 1993 -1995

Chapter 6
Michaela LOCHNER:
• Recording of Ceramies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, with the Help of the Programme InputMachine

Chapter 7
Eva LENNEIS:
• On Some Essential Characteristics ofthe Ceramies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 8
Svend HANSEN:
• Two Idols from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 9
Ian G. HEDLEY:
• Archaeomagnetic Study ofNeolithic Hearths from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz. Site 2

Chapter 10
Alexander MINNICH:
• Neolithic Hearths from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 11
Peter STADLER:
• Four Settlement Graves from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Area of Site 2

Chapter 12
Peter STADLER:
• Image Database Montelius for Building a Neolithization Archive

Chapter 13
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Quantitative Evaluation of Typology Obtained by MonteliusEditor with Different Seriations for Ceramies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 14
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Radiocarbon Chronology

Chapter 15
Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Periodization of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2

Chapter 16
Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• Technological Aspects and Shapes ofthe Pottery from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz. Site 2

Chapter 17
Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• Ornamentation ofPottery and Knobs from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz. Site 2

Chapter 18
Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• Analogies ofthe Ceramic Set ofBrunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2 in the Neolithic of Neighbouring Territories

Chapter 19
Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• Idols and Clay Objects of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz. Site 2

Chapter 20
Beate Maria POMBERGER, Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• Flutes from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2

Chapter 21
Nadezhda KOTOVA, Peter STADLER:
• The Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2 settlement and the Formative Phase ofthe Linear Pottery Culture

Chapter 22
Peter STADLER:
• Possible Relations and Contaets between the Mesolithie and Early Neolithie People

Chapter 23
Anna RAUBA-BUKOWSKA:
• Petrographie Analysis ofthe LPC Pottery from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, and the Neighbouring Areas: Staröevo and LPC Pottery from Hungary, Croatia, Ukraine, and Slovakia

Chapter 24
Roman SAUER:
• Petrographical and Mineralogical Analyses of Pottery and Clay Raw Materials from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 25
Otto CICHOCKI:
• Charcoal Finds from the Early Neolithic Sites from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Lower Austria

Chapter 26
Silvia WIESINGER:
• Botanical Remains from the Sites of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 27
Peter STADLER:
• The Story ofthe Honey Bee

Chapter 28
Erich PUCHER:
• Remarks on the Animal Bone Finds from the Early Neolithic Settlement at Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Part b:

Chapter 29
Maria TESCHLER-NICOLA, Friederike NOVOTNY:
• The Human Skeletal Remains from the Early Neolithic Settlement of Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2

Chapter 30
Franz BRANDSTÄTTER:
• Investigation of Paint Remains on Ceramies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz Sampies by Analytical Scanning Electron Microscopy (ASEM)

Chapter 31
Fritz SAUTER, Kurt VARMUZA, Wolfgang WERTHER and Peter STADLER:
• Chemical Analysis of Organic Material Found in Traces on a Neolithic Terracotta Idol Statuette Excavated in Lower Austria. Studies in Organic Archaeometry V

Chapter 32
Leopold PUCHINGER, Friedrich SAUTER and Julian David SCHRATTENECKER:
• Chemical Identification of Pitch Found in the Sites of the Early N eolithic Settlement at Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz. Studies in OrganicArchaeometry IX

Chapter 33
Peter STADLER:
• Birch Bark Pitch (BBP) Sampies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz and Their Archaeological Context

Chapter 34
Alexey G. NIKITIN:
• Anatolian Neolithic Migration to Europe from an Archaeogenetic Stand point

Chapter 35
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Plates with Ceramies from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2

Chapter 36
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Abstract

Chapter 37
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Zusammenfassung

Chapter 38
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Conclusions

Chapter 39
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Schlussfolgerungen

Chapter 40
Peter STADLER, Nadezhda KOTOVA:
• Literature

Chapter 41
Peter STADLER:
• Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Neolithic Site Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz

Chapter 42
Peter STADLER:
• Authors and Their E-Mail Addresses

Chapter 43
Peter STADLER:
• Excavation Colour Photos from Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz, Site 2