Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31005
Nicholas Conard, Benjamin Schürch, Fabian Haack, Sibylle Wolf
During the course of the excavations in the backdirt of Vogelherd in 2008, the crew recovered a tusk of a boar preserving clear signs of anthropogenic modification. In addition to the polishing that regularly occurs on tusks during the life of the animal, this specimen, showed signs of cut- ting, scraping and polish subsequent to the animal’s death. This artifact superficially resembles a Magdalenian female figurine with a triangular buttock and a stick-like torso, which led to the hypothesis that the find may be of Paleolithic origin and may be an artwork. Alternatively, the find was hypothesized to be an artifact of unknown function from the Holocene, based on the rarity of faunal remains of boar from the Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura. While the excavator always stressed the uncertainty related to the interpretation of the find, some colleagues ac- cepted the hypothesis that the find represented a Magdalenian female figurine. Thirteen years after its recovery, we have reexamined this artifact and conducted comparative studies that support the hypothesis that the find is of Holocene age. Based on similar finds, we conclude that, although the function of this class of artifact is not yet certain, this artifact is a Neolithic or Mesolithic tool with clear parallels in Germany, France and Switzerland. This class of artifact is rare in Central Europe, but our survey of Neolithic and Mesolithic publications allows us to reject the hypothesis, that this find represents a Magdalenian female figurine. This artifact, however, enriches the record of Holocene organic technology in southwestern Germany.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31002
Lucia Cobo-Sanchez
Academic discussions about African Early Stone Age site formation, animal carcass acquisition by hominins, the regularity of meat consumption or the use of central places have mainly relied on taphonomic studies of a few archaeofaunal assemblages, such as FLK Zinj (1.84 Ma [million years] ago, Olduvai Gorge Bed I, Tanzania). The DS site lies on the same paleosurface as FLK Zinj and constitutes an equally well-preserved, vertically-discrete deposit. The site has been extensively excavated in recent years (554 m²) and represents an invaluable opportunity to address key and long debated issues regarding early hominin lifeways with new approaches based on using robust and reliable statistical methods, including machine learning. Taphonomic studies can also greatly benefit from including the spatial component in the interpretations of a site’s formation and functionality. The results of the taphonomic and spatial study of DS point to the following behavioral components of hominin lifeways with regard to their foraging strategies: 1) regular primary access to animal carcasses; 2) selective animal carcass acquisition; and 3) collective animal carcass consumption in central-provisioning places. These features also point to cooperation and food sharing. The evidence from DS indicates that early Homo showed significant behavioral complexity relative to extant primates and a cohesive social structure. Two more newly discovered anthropogenically supported sites from the same period (PTK and AGS, Bed I Olduvai Gorge) that are currently being analyzed will soon shed further light on these adaptations.
关于非洲早期石器时代遗址形成、人类获取动物尸体、肉类消费规律或中心地点使用的学术讨论主要依赖于对少数考古动物组合的地学研究，如FLK Zinj(184万年前，坦桑尼亚Olduvai峡谷床1)。DS遗址与FLK Zinj位于同一古表面，构成了一个同样保存完好的垂直离散矿床。近年来，该遗址被广泛挖掘(554平方米)，代表了一个宝贵的机会，可以通过使用包括机器学习在内的强大可靠的统计方法的新方法来解决关于早期人类生活方式的关键和长期争论的问题。地形学研究也可以通过将空间成分纳入对场地形成和功能的解释中而受益匪浅。地形学和空间学研究结果表明，古人类的觅食策略主要表现在:1)有规律地获取动物尸体;2)选择性动物胴体获取;3)集中供给地的集体动物胴体消费。这些特征也指向合作和食物分享。来自DS的证据表明，与现存灵长类动物相比，早期人具有显著的行为复杂性和紧密的社会结构。目前正在分析的另外两个新发现的同一时期的人类活动支持地点(PTK和AGS, Bed I Olduvai Gorge)将很快进一步阐明这些适应。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31007
Karin Weiss-Wrana, Sabine Echterbecker
{"title":"Die Jahresexkursion der GfU nach Nord- und Mitteldeutschland","authors":"Karin Weiss-Wrana, Sabine Echterbecker","doi":"10.51315/mgfu.2022.31007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51315/mgfu.2022.31007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267298,"journal":{"name":"Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135097926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31004
Michael Jochim
Prevailing interpretations of late glacial “azilianization” processes in western Europe emphasize the role of adaptive responses to environmental changes by Late Epigravettian and Late Mag- dalenian populations. These interpretations stress the considerable cultural continuity across this transition. Recent DNA studies, however, have raised the possibility of a significant popu- lation turnover at this time, ultimately deriving from influences from the Near East, perhaps re- flecting a demographic expansion. Such an expansion—or migration—should be reflected by some abrupt changes in the archaeological record, which at present are not obvious or em- phasized. In an attempt to identify the proposed immigrants, the record in terms of lithic tech- nology, projectile use, the domestication of dogs, and artistic and mortuary behavior is examined.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31008
Sibylle Wolf
{"title":"Jahresbericht der Vorsitzenden der GfU für 2022","authors":"Sibylle Wolf","doi":"10.51315/mgfu.2022.31008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51315/mgfu.2022.31008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267298,"journal":{"name":"Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135097913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31001
Miriam Noël Haidle
{"title":"Laudation: Dr. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Twenty-fourth Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology","authors":"Miriam Noël Haidle","doi":"10.51315/mgfu.2022.31001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51315/mgfu.2022.31001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267298,"journal":{"name":"Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135097919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.3100v
Michael Bolus, Nicholas Conard
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2021.30006
Sibylle Wolf, Benjamin Schürch, Jens A. Frick, M. Seifert
Die Vogelherd-Figuren wurden unter Leitung des Urgeschichtlers Gustav Riek 1931 in der Vo- gelherd-Höhle bei Niederstotzingen ausgegraben. Riek hatte offensichtlich eine starke Bindung zu den Figurinen. Sie zählen zu den ältesten figürlichen Kunstwerken der Welt. Ihre Auffindung wird hier diskutiert. Die Aufbewahrung der Figuren seit 1931 bis heute hat eine wechselvolle Geschichte, die hier erstmalig mittels Einsichtnahme in die Akten des Archivs der Universität Tübingen nachvollzogen wurde. Heute sind die Figuren im Museum für Alte Kulturen im Schloss Hohentübingen ausgestellt.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2021.30003
N. Conard, A. Janas, Diana Marcazzan, C. Miller, M. Richard, Benjamin Schürch, C. Tribolo
During the summer of 2020 the excavation team at Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of south- western Germany recovered a leaf point (in German Blattspitze) made from gray Jurassic chert. The find is well-preserved and remarkable for a number of reasons. First this is the only leaf point recovered by a modern excavation in the Swabian Jura, and is the first leaf point discov- ered in situ since 1936, when Gustav Riek’s crew recovered two well-preserved leaf points at the excavation of Haldenstein Cave in the Lone Valley. The leaf point and associated finds orig- inate from archaeological horizon (AH) X, 120 cm below the base of the rich Aurignacian de- posits at the site that dates with radiocarbon to ca. 42 ka cal BP. Four ESR dates made on the teeth of large mammals from AH IX overlying the new leaf point yielded an average age of 62.5 ± 4 ka BP. This date represents a minimum age for the new horizons, which based on con- vention would be placed in the cultural taxonomic unit of the Blattspitzengruppe. Since the Blattspitzengruppe is typically interpreted as the last Middle Paleolithic cultural unit, we were intrigued to find an assemblage containing a Blattspitze in such an early chronostratigraphic context. While in Germany the Blattspitzengruppe is usually associated with the end of the Mid- dle Paleolithic, many researchers across Europe have described these leaf point assemblages as being transitional industries at the interface between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. His- torically, some authors have even suggested a degree of cultural continuity between leaf point assemblages of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. Here we present the stratigraphic and chro- nological context of the AH X and provide a preliminary description of the material cultural record from this horizon. Keeping in mind that we so far have only excavated parts of 6 m2 of the new find horizon and the underlying find horizon AH XI, the paper provides initial observa- tions that will need revision as the excavation proceeds. These findings suggest that leaf points represent a feature in the technological repertoire of the Late Pleistocene Neanderthals of southwestern Germany rather than a reliable cultural stratigraphic marker for the last phase of the Middle Paleolithic.
2020年夏天，德国西南部阿奇山谷Hohle Fels洞穴的挖掘团队发现了一个由灰色侏罗纪燧石制成的叶尖(德语Blattspitze)。这一发现保存完好，值得注意的原因有很多。首先，这是斯瓦本Jura现代挖掘中发现的唯一一个叶尖，也是自1936年以来在原地发现的第一个叶尖，当时Gustav Riek的团队在Lone Valley的Haldenstein洞穴挖掘中发现了两个保存完好的叶尖。叶点和相关的发现来自考古层(AH) X，在该遗址丰富的奥日尼亚期矿床底部下方120厘米处，放射性碳测定的年代约为42 ka cal BP。对覆盖新叶点的AH IX大型哺乳动物牙齿进行的4个ESR测年结果显示，它们的平均年龄为62.5±4 ka BP。这个日期代表了新地平线的最低年龄，根据惯例，它将被置于blattspitzengrouppe的文化分类单位中。由于Blattspitzengruppe通常被解释为最后一个中旧石器时代的文化单位，我们对在如此早的年代地层背景下发现一个包含blattspitzenppe的组合很感兴趣。虽然在德国，Blattspitzengruppe通常与旧石器时代中期的末期联系在一起，但欧洲的许多研究人员将这些叶点组合描述为旧石器时代中期和晚期之间的过渡工业。从历史上看，一些作者甚至提出在旧石器时代中期和晚期的叶尖组合之间存在一定程度的文化连续性。在这里，我们提出了AH X的地层和年代学背景，并从这个视界提供了物质文化记录的初步描述。这些发现表明，叶尖代表了德国西南部晚更新世尼安德特人的一种技术特征，而不是旧石器时代中期最后阶段的可靠文化地层标志。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2021.30002
S. Florin
In recent years, new evidence for the early use of plant foods has challenged the stereotype of the meat-eating Paleolithic. Whilst often making up the smaller component of the diet, plant foods are key to hominin diets, carbohydrates especially providing an efficient energy resource. This paper reviews the current evidence for the role of plant foods in the evolution and dispersal of early modern humans and our closest ancestors, with a focus on new evidence for early diet from Island Southeast Asia, Australia and New Guinea. It demonstrates the importance of plant foods and their processing, to the dietary flexibility and adaptive capacity of our species.
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