Demographische Untersuchungen zu Bevölkerungsdichten, Mobilität und Landnutzungsmustern im späten Jungpaläolithikum

The end of the Late Palaeolithic saw one of the gravest demographic upheavals of the glacial, the re-occupation of Central Europe by the Magdalenian [20,000-14,000 calBP] after the final glacial maximum. Some thousand years later, the Magdalenian had left more than 1,700 archeological sites all over West and Central Europe. The author is first to outline this development in detail including estimates of relevant population sizes for both daily and annual ranges. The Franco-Cantabrian region turned out to have had a particularly high, Eastern Central Europe a particularly low population density with averages ranging from 0.024 to 0.042 persons per km² in most settled areas. Between them, there were uninhabited zones. This led to an overall estimate of 0.002-0.004 persons per km². At the same time, a copious catalogue and manifold map material make the book a standard work on the entire Magdalenian. This study also represents the macro level of a tripartite research project within Collaborative Research Centre 806, whose micro level dealt with the area of a hunter group on the River Rhine [Sano 2012] and whose mesolevel analysed five Central European territorial complexes [Maier 2015].