Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie

Functional Variability in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe

Katsuhiro Sano

"Functional Variability in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe" – the thesis of Katsuhiro Sano was published in December 2012 as volume 219 within the series "Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie". It 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. This study 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. Thus, this dissertation written at the Institute of Prehistory Archaeology of the University of Cologne has made a considerable contribution to one of the principal topics of CRC 806 „Our Way to Europe".

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