Katsuhiro Sano
Functional Variability in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe – A Traceological Approach
The study presents use wear analyses of lithic artefacts from some Magdalenian sites in Western Europe which might have belonged to one and the same regional Magdalenian group, regularly migrating between the Meuse and the Middle Rhine river valleys. The author, Katsuhiro Sano, makes visible a regional pattern which must have played an important role within the process of Magdalenian resettlement of North-Western Europe after the second glacial maximum and which probably represented different seasonal and functional situations within a system of hunter-gatherer annual mobility.
This work, written as a dissertation at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology of the University of Cologne, has made a considerable contribution to one of the principal topics of CRC 806 'Our Way to Europe'.
Paperback, 343 pages with 178 figures (partly in colour) and 47 tables
Size 21.0 x 29.7 cm
Price Euro 67.00ISBN: 978-3-7749-3817-5
Aus dem Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität zu Köln – SFB 806 'Our Way to Europe'
Verlag Habelt, Bonn 2012