Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - OPEN AIR OCCUPATIONS IN A CAVE
DOMINATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
– NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE PALAEOLITHIC
OF THE SWABIAN JURA (SOUTHERN GERMANY)
AU  - Floss H
AU  - Fröhle S
AU  - Schürch B
AU  - Wettengl S
Y1  - 2017
VL  - 55
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 43
EP  - 73
KW  - Open-air sites
KW  - Middle Palaeolithic
KW  - Upper Palaeolithic
KW  - Swabian Jura
KW  - Research bias
KW  - Raw material
N2  - 
N2  - In the current state of research, Palaeolithic open-air sites in the Swabian Jura are not very numerous nor
in the most cases well researched, although a great potential for these sites exists. The main problem is, that over the last
decades, Palaeolithic research in the Swabian Jura focused mainly on cave sites and that subsequently, open-air sites
existed mostly in the shadows of these well known caves. The data basis for our research composed of a large number of
stone artefacts. Based on meticulous typological and technological analyses of stone artefacts recovered either by surface
prospections or by excavations, we were able to identify several new Palaeolithic open-air sites in this region that cover
a time span from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic. The Middle Palaeolithic is present at Börslingen-Eisenberg,
Wippingen-Sonderbuch (both Alb-Donau-Kreis) and Waldstetten-Schlatt (Ostalbkreis). An Early Upper Palaeolithic
component is proven for all previous sites as well, but additionally we can name the Magdalenian site Heubach-Sand
(Ostalbkreis). These sites have in common, that they are all connected to raw-material outcrops situated either directly
on site or in their immediate surroundings.
ER  -