A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe

Gehlen, Birgit, Affolter, Jehanne ORCID: 0000-0003-4106-8653, Schoen, Werner, Scharl, Silviane ORCID: 0000-0002-5802-9813, Siegmund, Frank ORCID: 0000-0002-0555-3451, Fischer, Anna-Leena ORCID: 0000-0001-6737-4208, Grunert, Mareike, Meiborg, Christa, Mischka, Doris ORCID: 0000-0002-7278-5391, Treude, Elke and Uthmeier, Thorsten . A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe. J. Maps. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1744-5647

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DOI:10.1080/17445647.2022.2150572

Abstract

Analysis 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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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Gehlen, Birgit	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Affolter, Jehanne	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-8653	UNSPECIFIED
Schoen, Werner	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Scharl, Silviane	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-9813	UNSPECIFIED
Siegmund, Frank	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-0555-3451	UNSPECIFIED
Fischer, Anna-Leena	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0001-6737-4208	UNSPECIFIED
Grunert, Mareike	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Meiborg, Christa	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mischka, Doris	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-7278-5391	UNSPECIFIED
Treude, Elke	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Uthmeier, Thorsten	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED