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Magdalenian Settlement Pattern and Subsistence in Central Europe

The Southwestern and Central German Cases

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The Central European Magdalenian is found in the mountainous area between the Rhine in the west and the Slovenian Mountains in the east. Nearly 200 Magdalenian sites are known from this area of approximately 350,000 km2. The sites can be divided into six geographic regional groups: the Swiss, the southwestern German, Bavarian, Czechoslovakian, middle Rhine, and the central German. If one looks at the sites of the two biggest groups, the southwest and the central German ones, some ideas can be generated about Magdalenian subsistance practices and settlement patterns.

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Weniger, GC. (1987). Magdalenian Settlement Pattern and Subsistence in Central Europe. In: Soffer, O. (eds) The Pleistocene Old World. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0_13

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