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Deckers, Katleen; Eckmeier, Eileen; Frenzel, Peter; Fritzsch, Dagmar; Langan, Carolin; Leierer, Lucia; Mentzer, Susan M.; Pint, Anna; Raab, Alexandra; Riehl, Simone; Röpke, Astrid; Schlütz, Frank; Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila; Wiedner, Katja

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“…In addition to the observations made in the field during the excavation, micromorphological analyses were carried out to gain additional information about sediment composition and processes of sediment accumulation and post-sedimentary overprinting by turbations and relocation processes or by soil formation. The micromorphological analysis of thin sections of sediment is very well suited for this purpose because sediment components can be identified and their microscale spatial arrangement can be examined [ 90 , 91 ]. In addition to the indication of sedimentary and post-sedimentary processes, there are often indications of ground frost [ 92 , 93 ], which in turn can help in the chronological classification of individual sediment packages.…”

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Western visitors at the Blätterhöhle (city of Hagen, southern Westphalia) during the Younger Dryas? A new final palaeolithic assemblage type in western Germany

et al. 2023

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Until now, it was considered certain that the last reindeer hunters of the Ahrensburgian (tanged point groups) existed exclusively in northwestern Central Europe during the Younger Dryas Cold Period (~ Greenland Stadial 1). The excavations carried out since 2006 on the forecourt (Vorplatz) of the small Blätterhöhle in Hagen on the northern edge of the Sauerland uplands of southern Westphalia (North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany) have now changed this view. Beneath a surprisingly extensive sequence of Mesolithic find horizons, Pleistocene sediments could be reached whose excavations yielded a Final Palaeolithic lithic ensemble of the Younger Dryas, unusual for the region and beyond. It is characterised by numerous backed lithic projectile points of high variability. Comparisons suggest a typological-technological connection with the Western European Laborian / Late Laborian. Neither in the nearer nor in the wider surroundings has a comparable lithic find ensemble been found so far. In addition, there is a lack of clear evidence for the reindeer in the fauna. Surprisingly, the vast majority of radiocarbon dates of bones and charcoals from the investigated archaeological horizon of the Final Pleistocene proved to be significantly older than expected from their stratigraphic position. This phenomenon has not yet been clarified.

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