La Hoguette

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Coordinates: 48°52′42″N 0°09′32″W / 48.8783333333°N 0.158888888889°W / 48.8783333333; -0.158888888889

Commune of La Hoguette

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Location
La Hoguette is located in France
La Hoguette
Administration
Country France
Region Basse-Normandie
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Falaise-Sud
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays de Falaise
Mayor Alain Guilmart
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 89–267 m (290–880 ft)
(avg. 220 m/720 ft)
Land area1 24.44 km2 (9.44 sq mi)
Population2 601  (2006)
 - Density 25 /km2 (65 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 14332/ 14700
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] People

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

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

  • [1] La Hoguette (M.O. Baldwin)