La Hoguette is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.

Its postal code is 14700. The INSEE code is 14332.

Archeology

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.

Personalities

La Hoguette was the birthplace of Georges Marchais (1920-1997), head of the French Communist Party.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

Based on the article in the French Wikipedia.

External links

La Hoguette (M.O. Baldwin)