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La Hoguette is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14700. The INSEE code is 14332.


La Hoguette is also the type site of the early Neolithic La Hoguette culture that is found mainly in association with Linearbandkeramic or Limburg pottery in Northern France, The Netherlands, Alsace and Western Germany. It is believed to ultimately derive from the Mediterranean Cardial-Traditions. Important sites of the La-Hoguette culture include Stuttgart-Wilhelma, Dautenheim and Godelau.


The La Hoguette pottery was found under a later megalithic tomb and first misidentified as Linearbandkeramic. La Hoguette marks the westernmost point of the distribution of this culture.


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La Hoguette seems to coexist with the Bandkeramik (LBK) in many sites.
La Hoguette is found in the RhĂ´ne valley, Northern France, Switzerland and Southwest Germany (e.g.
Although most researches stipulate a western Mediterranean relationship, it has been suggested that La Hoguette could be a part of a broad distribution of East and North European pointed-bottom pottery that was split in two by the intrusion of the LBK.
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