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Annual Report from the Chair of the GfU for 2022

Posted on: Last updated on: Author: Sibylle Wolf 
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Older issues: MGfU Reports #1-28 are available via the GFU website.

Please direct any questions to N.J. Conard, M. Bolus or a member of the editorial board.


Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas J. Conard


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Michael Bolus


Editorial Board

Shara Bailey (New York)
François Bon (Toulouse)
Ariane Burke (Montreal)
Katja Douze (Geneva)
Clive Gamble (London)
Sabine Gaudzinski-­Windheuser (Mainz)
Katerina Harvati (Tübingen)
Jean-­Jacques Hublin (Leipzig)
Robert L. Kelly (Laramie, Wyoming)
Johannes Krause (Leipzig/Tübingen)
Steven L. Kuhn (Tucson)
Foni Le Brun­-Ricalens (Luxemburg)
Feng Li (Beijing)
Christopher E. Miller (Tübingen)
Philip Nigst (Vienna)
Akira Ono (Tokyo)
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 31
Das Vereinsjahr 2021/22 gestaltete sich trotz Einschränkungen durch die Pandemie gut.
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Annual Excursion of the GFU to Northern and Central Germany, September 25 – October 02, 2022

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Karin Weiß-Wrana, Sabine Echterbecker 
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Older issues: MGfU Reports #1-28 are available via the GFU website.

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Editor-in-Chief

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Katja Douze (Geneva)
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Sabine Gaudzinski-­Windheuser (Mainz)
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 31
Die Exkursion 2022 umfasste thematisch die menschliche Evolution vom Paläolithikum bis ins Neolithikum. Sie ermöglichte uns weiterhin einen Einblick in die Zeit der Germanen, der Wikinger und die der Slawen im frühen Mittelalter.
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Renaturation of the Schöningen Opencast Mine with Various Megaherbivores in the Form of Different Landscape and Climate Change Scenarios

Posted on: Last updated on: Author: Leonie Turnwald 
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Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas J. Conard


Editor

Michael Bolus


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Shara Bailey (New York)
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Ariane Burke (Montreal)
Katja Douze (Geneva)
Clive Gamble (London)
Sabine Gaudzinski-­Windheuser (Mainz)
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 31
This paper examines a renaturation of the former Schöningen opencast lignite mine into a wilderness area. Megaherbivores are to be used to maintain an open landscape.
Continue reading “Renaturation of the Schöningen Opencast Mine with Various Megaherbivores in the Form of Different Landscape and Climate Change Scenarios”…

On the Status of the Boar Tooth Artifact from the Backdirt of Vogelherd

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Nicholas J. Conard, Benjamin Schürch, Fabian Haack, Sibylle Wolf 
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Editor-in-Chief

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Katja Douze (Geneva)
Clive Gamble (London)
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 31
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.
Continue reading “On the Status of the Boar Tooth Artifact from the Backdirt of Vogelherd”…

Where are the Immigrants? Questions about the Demographic Underpinnings of Late Pleistocene Cultural Changes in Western Europe

Posted on: Last updated on: Author: Michael Jochim 
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Clive Gamble (London)
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Prevailing interpretations of late glacial “azilianization” processes in western Europe emphasize the role of adaptive responses to environmental changes by Late Epigravettian and Late Magdalenian populations.
Continue reading “Where are the Immigrants? Questions about the Demographic Underpinnings of Late Pleistocene Cultural Changes in Western Europe”…

New Perspectives on the Behavioral Patterns of Early Modern Humans from the Japanese Islands

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Takuya Yamaoka, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Motoki Miyoshi, Jun Takakura 
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Older issues: MGfU Reports #1-28 are available via the GFU website.

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Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas J. Conard


Editor

Michael Bolus


Editorial Board

Shara Bailey (New York)
François Bon (Toulouse)
Ariane Burke (Montreal)
Katja Douze (Geneva)
Clive Gamble (London)
Sabine Gaudzinski-­Windheuser (Mainz)
Katerina Harvati (Tübingen)
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This paper presents archaeological research of the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Japanese Islands, introducing the findings of recent research there into early modern humans.
Continue reading “New Perspectives on the Behavioral Patterns of Early Modern Humans from the Japanese Islands”…

Tracking Early Hominin Foraging Behavior at DS Site (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge)

Posted on: Last updated on: Author: Lucía Cobo-Sánchez 
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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 ago, Olduvai Gorge Bed I, Tanzania).
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Laudation: Dr. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Twenty-fourth Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology

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Ladies and gentlemen, Dean Stehle, representatives of Romina EiszeitQuell, dear colleagues, students, and friends of the Institute, dear Dr. Cobo-Sánchez, it is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce the 24th laureate of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology.
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Foreword

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Mit diesem Heft erscheint in bewährter Kooperation mit dem Tübinger Kerns Verlag Band 31 der Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte (MGfU).
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Annual Excursion of the GfU to Southwestern France, August 29 to September 5, 2021

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Die Freude war groß, als diese Exkursion tatsächlich stattfinden konnte, denn sie war schon für das Jahr 2020 geplant, musste aber wegen der Corona-Pandemie ins Folgejahr und dann nochmals vom traditionellen Pfingsttermin auf den Spätsommer verschoben werden.
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Annual Report from the Chair of the GfU for 2021

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Das vergangene Jahr war seit Juli 2020 überschattet von der COVID-19 Pandemie. Die Aktivitäten der GfU waren dadurch sehr eingeschränkt.
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On the Reconstruction of the Mammoth Ivory Flute from Geißenklösterle Cave. A Field Report

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Seit der Entdeckung der Flöten aus den Aurignacien-Schichten der Höhlen auf der Schwäbischen Alb beschäftigt sich der Autor mit der Rekonstruktion dieser bislang ältesten Musikinstrumente der Welt. Der folgende Bericht beschreibt die Erfahrungen, die bei der Arbeit gesammelt werden konnten, am Beispiel des jüngsten Nachbaus der Mammutelfenbeinflöte aus dem Geißenklösterle.
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Traces of Life in Prehistoric Artifacts – Obituary for Linda Rae Owen (* 31.01.1952, † 26.02.2021)

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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
On February 26, 2021, the well-known prehistorian Linda Rae Owen (Fig 1) died after a severe corona illness at the age of 69; she lived in her third marriage to Dr. Artur Zimmermann in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Bavaria.
Continue reading “Traces of Life in Prehistoric Artifacts – Obituary for Linda Rae Owen (* 31.01.1952, † 26.02.2021)”…

The Adventurous Way of the Vogelherd Figurines – From their Discovery until Today

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Sibylle Wolf, Benjamin Schürch, Jens A. Frick, Michael Seifert 
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
The prehistorian Gustav Riek excavated the Vogelherd figurines in the Vogelherd Cave near Niederstotzingen in 1931. Riek obviously had a strong bond with the figurines. They are among the oldest figurative artworks worldwide. We discuss their discovery.
Continue reading “The Adventurous Way of the Vogelherd Figurines – From their Discovery until Today”…

Book Review: Coping with Risk Through Seasonal Behavioural Strategies

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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
The author Dr. Markus Wild presents, in a comprehensive monograph, his study on the socioeconomic behavior of the hunter-gatherer human groups inhabiting northwestern Europe within the late Upper Paleolithic. More precisely, he focuses on the two major cultural entities of this period, the Hamburgian and the Final Magdalenian, by analyzing from a technological viewpoint the rich reindeer antler assemblage from northwestern Europe.
Continue reading “Book Review: Coping with Risk Through Seasonal Behavioural Strategies”…

Dental Wear Evidence for Browsing and Grazing Dietary Traits in the Giant Deer from the Late Pleistocene of Central Europe

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Florent Rivals, Dorothée G. Drucker, Britt M. Starkovich, Gabriele Russo, Dirk Leder, Nicholas J. Conard 
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
The paleoecology of the giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus), including its dietary preferences, is poorly known, mainly because reconstructions based on morphological characteristics have produced contradictory results.
Continue reading “Dental Wear Evidence for Browsing and Grazing Dietary Traits in the Giant Deer from the Late Pleistocene of Central Europe”…

The Cultural and Chronostratigraphic Context of a New Leaf Point from Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of Southwestern Germany

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Nicholas J. Conard, Alexander Janas, Diana Marcazzan, Christopher E. Miller, Maïlys Richard, Benjamin Schürch, and Chantal Tribolo 
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
During the summer of 2020 the excavation team at Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern 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.
Continue reading “The Cultural and Chronostratigraphic Context of a New Leaf Point from Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of Southwestern Germany”…

The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans: A Perspective from Across the Wallace Line

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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.
Continue reading “The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans: A Perspective from Across the Wallace Line”…

Laudation: Dr. Stephanie Anna Florin, Twenty-Third Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology

Posted on: Last updated on: Author: Simone Riehl 
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Dear Dr. Florin, representatives of the Romina Mineralbrunnen GmbH, Prof. Fortágh, Prof. Conard and colleagues of the Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, and Anna’s friends who are joining her award ceremony digitally today.
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Foreword

Posted on: Last updated on: Authors: Michael Bolus, Nicholas J. Conard 
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Older issues: MGfU Reports #1-28 are available via the GFU website.

Please direct any questions to N.J. Conard, M. Bolus or a member of the editorial board.


Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas J. Conard


Editor

Michael Bolus


Editorial Board

Shara Bailey (New York) 
François Bon (Toulouse) 
Ariane Burke (Montreal)
Katja Douze (Geneva)
Clive Gamble (London)
Sabine Gaudzinski­Windheuser (Mainz) 
Katerina Harvati (Tübingen)
Jean­Jacques Hublin (Leipzig)
Robert L. Kelly (Laramie, Wyoming) 
Johannes Krause (Leipzig/Tübingen) 
Steven L. Kuhn (Tucson)
Foni Le Brun­Ricalens (Luxemburg) 
Feng Li (Beijing)
Christopher E. Miller (Tübingen) 
Philip Nigst (Vienna)
Akira Ono (Tokyo)
Marco Peresani (Ferrara)
Guillaume Porraz (Aix­en­Provence) 
Jürgen Richter (Köln)
Simone Riehl (Tübingen)
Florent Rivals (Tarragona)
Wil Roebroeks (Leiden) 
Veerle Rots (Liège)
Britt M. Starkovich (Tübingen) 
Thorsten Uthmeier (Erlangen) 
Pawel Valde­Nowak (Krakow) 
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Published in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Vol. 30
Mit Band 30 liegen nun zum zweiten Mal die Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte (MGfU) in neuer Aufmachung vor. Das neue Layout ist bei zahlreichen Autor*innen sowie Leser*innen sowohl aus der breiten Öffentlichkeit als auch dem Kreis der Kolleg*innen auf sehr positive Resonanz gestoßen.
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