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Mobility, Search Modes, and Food-Getting Technology

From Magdalenian to Early Mesolithic in the Upper Danube Basin

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Beyond Foraging and Collecting

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The archaeology of Late Glacial and Early Postglacial central and western Europe offers evidence of long-term economic, technological, and demographic change in mobile hunter-gatherer societies at a time of dramatic environmental change. Late Glacial and Early Postglacial warming caused a rapid retreat of alpine glaciers and touched off a cascade of changes in natural landscapes, as first steppe-tundra and then woodland flora and fauna recolonized previously glaciated and periglacial areas. Climatic and landscape change north of the Alps took place in several episodes during a long period of unstable conditions between the first major glacier retreats about 16,000 years B.F. and the development of deciduous forests about 8000 years later. The archaeological record of this period shows clear evidence of changes in several aspects of hunter-gatherer spatial behavior, including migration into deglaciated and periglacial regions (Housley et al. 1997; Jochim et al. 1999) and changes in land use by local populations, as indicated by alterations in the number, size, character, and location of archaeological sites during this dynamic period (Eriksen 1991, 1996; Jochim 1991, 1998; Mellars 1984; Myers 1989; Straus 1991; Svoboda et al., eds. 1996)

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Fisher, L.E. (2002). Mobility, Search Modes, and Food-Getting Technology. In: Fitzhugh, B., Habu, J. (eds) Beyond Foraging and Collecting. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0543-3_6

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