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The Magdalenian Colonization of Southern Germany
Author(s) -
Jochim Michael,
Herhahn Cynthia,
Starr Harry
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.129
Subject(s) - magdalenian , subsistence agriculture , colonization , archaeology , frontier , settlement (finance) , refugium (fishkeeping) , human settlement , geography , population , last glacial maximum , ethnology , history , holocene , ecology , habitat , demography , sociology , cave , world wide web , computer science , payment , biology , agriculture
Although the topics of migration and colonization have received renewed archaeological attention in recent years, their relevance to the deep past of hunter‐gatherer archaeology has been debated. The Magdalenian colonization of southern Germany after the last glacial maximum, ca. 15,000‐13,000 B.P., presents a case study in which many of the debated issues can be explored. Environmental change and relative demographic pressure played a causal role in population movements, leading to a gradual, discontinuous expansion from the Franco‐cantabrian refugium. Active social strategies to overcome the risks facing frontier groups helped maintain remarkable uniformity in material culture across hundreds of kilometers, despite shifts in subsistence and settlement patterns required in the newly occupied areas, [archaeology. Palaeolithic, Europe, migration]