This volume deals with the fortification of the Lusatian Culture still surviving some 4-6 m high, which was probably preceded by a - possibly also fortified - settlement of the Early Bronze / Early Iron Age as is shown by finds and features. In the Early Iron Age there was an earth-timber construction, followed by a box construction enlarged by Slavic settlers in the 7th / 8th century A.D. Thus, a refuge of some 45 m in radius and including a cistern was created. It was deserted in the late 10th / early 11th century. Of the Late Bronze / Early Iron Age [10th to 6th century] there was a 1-1.5 m tick layer of cultural debris with post pits, pits, and settlement finds such as pottery, loom weights, net sinkers, daub, production waste, e.g. of metal casting, animal and plant remains, mainly of phases Aurith and Göritz I, hardly ever Göritz II. In the 5th century the settlement was replaced by a ritual site of which 62 sacrificial shafts are known, only some of which have been wholly excavated.