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Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte [ISSN 1611-3578] Edited by Joachim Hahn, Hans-Peter Uerpmann and Nicholas John Conard Taken over of VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, Rahden

[ UM 7 ]

The distribution of stone artefacts in excavation areas.

A model for the organization of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement sites.

Claus-Joachim Kind

Hardcover

The study analyses 176 complexes reaching from African pebble tool sites of the Villafranchian to European Ertebølle sites of the Holocene. One focus are sites of the Later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Central Europe. While the Older Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic are dominated by diffuse, wide scatters, find sites of other periods are rather small and broad-oval with rich material along the edges, partly with hearths, possibly in the entrance area of a tent with poles. Winter houses with massive constructive elements had round scatters with a central large hearth. The surfaces were 5-100 m², mostly 30-70 m². Independently from the surface, finds often occured in basic units of 150 tools and 50 cores with winter sites being the richer ones. Tents avoided to have E- and SE-entrances and provided some 10-15 m² for 5-10 persons. Contemporaneous neighbouring scatters are only attested in winter settlements. Burials were deposited next to or inside tents. In the late Middle Palaeolithic and particularly in the Later Palaeolithic, significant combinations and clusters of artefact types occurred. The duration of occupation reached from a few days up to some four months.

Content:	294 pages, 181 illustrations, 32 tables		Cover:	Hardcover
Text:	German		Size:	21,0 x 29,7 cm / DIN A4
Abstracts in other languages:	English, French		weight:	1.130 g
Keywords:	find scatter, settlement structure		Series:	Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte
			ISSN:	1611-3578
Ph D thesis	Universität Tübingen, 1983		ISBN-13:	978-3-912618-23-5
			ISBN-10:	3-912618-23-1
			Place of Publication:	Tübingen (Verlag Archaeologica Venatoria)
			Date of Publication:	1985