Western visitors at the Blätterhöhle (city of Hagen, southern Westphalia) during the Younger Dryas? A new final palaeolithic assemblage type in western Germany

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Baales, Michael, Heuschen, Wolfgang, Kehl, Martin, Manz, Annika, Nolde, Nadine, Riemenschneider, Daniel, Rittweger, Holger, Orschiedt, Jörg
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2023
• Subjects: Research Article; Greenland; Hagen
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10156063/; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284479

Until now, it was considered certain that the last reindeer hunters of the Ahrensburgian (tanged point groups) existed exclusively in northwestern Central Europe during the Younger Dryas Cold Period (~ Greenland Stadial 1). The excavations carried out since 2006 on the forecourt (Vorplatz) of the sm...