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Magdalenian Settlement and Subsistence in South-west Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Gerd-C. Weniger
Gerd-C. Weniger*
Affiliation:
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

Magdalenian settlement systems and man/land relationships in South-west Germany are reconstructed, using archaeological evidence and modern ethnographic observation. Archaeological sites are divided into four size categories, each with distinctive structural and artefactual records, and assigned to different seasonal and functional uses in the annual subsistence cycle. Hunting of reindeer and horse dominated and, in contrast to previous theories of long-distance reindeer following, a territorial model of land-use is proposed.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 293 - 307
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1987

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