The Swabian Alb in the Later Stone Age. Illustrating the Changes in Subsistence and Land-Use Practices, 2009, 279 p. -

The generic principles and parameters of analogous hunter-fisher-gatherer societies as obtained from the analysis of 206 such societies in arctic, sub-arctic, and boreal forest environments in North America served as a model for interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record of the Swabian Alb and surrounding regions in the later Glacial and earlier Post-Glacial periods. 51 fauna assemblages spanning the full chronological range from the Early Magdalenian through the Earlier Mesolithic [Beuronian C] and characterizing the subsistence activities and annual rounds in the Alb and its environs were integrated with the seasonality, location in the contemporaneous landscape, and settlement structural properties. The analyses consisted of hierarchical series of iterative and cumulative nominal ordination and seriation analyses followed by Q-mode and R-mode cluster analyses, correspondence analyses, and multi-dimensional contingency table analyses. Major components of research were the seasonality of occupations, land-use practices, the selection of game, and the settlement structure [cave, abri, open-air], which formed different subsistence strategies.