A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe
ABSTRACTAnalysis of prehistoric lithic artefacts helps to answer a wide array of questions concerning archaeological contexts and prehistoric human behaviour. During three projects, we studied the origin of the raw materials of 32 inventories from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in northwest and...
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| author | Birgit Gehlen Jehanne Affolter Werner Schön Silviane Scharl Frank Siegmund Anna-Leena Fischer Mareike Grunert Christa Meiborg Doris Mischka Elke Treude Thorsten Uthmeier |
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| description | ABSTRACTAnalysis of prehistoric lithic artefacts helps to answer a wide array of questions concerning archaeological contexts and prehistoric human behaviour. During three projects, we studied the origin of the raw materials of 32 inventories from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in northwest and southern Germany. The basal petrographic analysis was conducted by the geologist and petro-archaeologist Jehanne Affolter. In addition, data of more than 60 published assemblages from Switzerland as well as western and southern Germany were recorded. The origin of lithic raw materials from most of these inventories was determined using the microfacial method. GIS-based maps of the raw material sources from the aforementioned regions are compiled and raw material catchment areas of the Stone Age sites are mapped. The area calculations of the raw material catchments revealed a diachronic alternation of larger and smaller areas, which above all suggest culturally determined cycles in the range of mobility and communication networks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a42a1a31b304cff9c0f9bf400ee678b2023-01-11T07:36:10ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Maps1744-56472023-01-0111110.1080/17445647.2022.2150572A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central EuropeBirgit Gehlen0Jehanne Affolter1Werner Schön2Silviane Scharl3Frank Siegmund4Anna-Leena Fischer5Mareike Grunert6Christa Meiborg7Doris Mischka8Elke Treude9Thorsten Uthmeier10SFB 806, Projekt D4, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln, Köln, GermanyAr-Geo-Lab, Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanySFB 806, Projekt D4, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln, Köln, GermanyInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, GermanyInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln, Köln, GermanyLippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, Detmold, GermanyLandesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Außenstelle Marburg, Wiesbaden, GermanyFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyLippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, Detmold, GermanyFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyABSTRACTAnalysis of prehistoric lithic artefacts helps to answer a wide array of questions concerning archaeological contexts and prehistoric human behaviour. During three projects, we studied the origin of the raw materials of 32 inventories from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in northwest and southern Germany. The basal petrographic analysis was conducted by the geologist and petro-archaeologist Jehanne Affolter. In addition, data of more than 60 published assemblages from Switzerland as well as western and southern Germany were recorded. The origin of lithic raw materials from most of these inventories was determined using the microfacial method. GIS-based maps of the raw material sources from the aforementioned regions are compiled and raw material catchment areas of the Stone Age sites are mapped. The area calculations of the raw material catchments revealed a diachronic alternation of larger and smaller areas, which above all suggest culturally determined cycles in the range of mobility and communication networks.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17445647.2022.2150572Stone AgeCentral Europelithic raw material sourcesmobilitycommunication networksraw material catchments |
| spellingShingle | Birgit Gehlen Jehanne Affolter Werner Schön Silviane Scharl Frank Siegmund Anna-Leena Fischer Mareike Grunert Christa Meiborg Doris Mischka Elke Treude Thorsten Uthmeier A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe Journal of Maps Stone Age Central Europe lithic raw material sources mobility communication networks raw material catchments |
| title | A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe |
| title_full | A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe |
| title_fullStr | A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe |
| title_short | A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe |
| title_sort | diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility case studies from the final palaeolithic mesolithic and neolithic in central europe |
| topic | Stone Age Central Europe lithic raw material sources mobility communication networks raw material catchments |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17445647.2022.2150572 |
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