The Early Mesolithic Haverbeck site, Northwest Germany: evidence for Preboreal settlement in the Western and Central European Plain

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1466-1476

  Tolksdorf, Johann Friedrich ^a   Kaiser, Knut ^a   Veil, Stephan ^b   Klasen, Nicole ^a   Brückner, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b State Museum of Lower Saxony Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geoarchaeology; Mesolithic chronology; Microlithic typology; Retooling; Site formation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EOLIAN PROCESS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MESOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOLOGY; PREBOREAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SITE INVESTIGATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANIC BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349213520     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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