The Final Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia, (actes coll. UISPP Amersfoort, Schleswig et Burgos UISPP), 2019, 400 p. -

The present volume brings together 21 papers presented at three different meetings of the UISPP Commission for “The Final Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia”. From a chronological perspective, our research focuses on the emergence and migration of hunter-gatherer groups into previously unoccupied territories across the North European Plain during the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial periods, i.e. from approximately 15,000 to 8,000 BP. Given the magnitude of climate fluctuations and, as a consequence, the changes in the landscape, vegetation and fauna, the Late and Final Palaeolithic cultures of Northern Eurasia were characterized by a variety of adaptive responses. These are reflected in lithic and organic technologies, settlement patterns, subsistence practices, social organizations and even ideologies. The thematic focus of the present volume highlights all of these topics and the research questions associated with them. We hope that the collection of papers will provide a solid fundament for future research on the Late and Final Palaeolithic.

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- Krogsbolle, a new Hamburgian site in eastern Denmark (F. Riede et al.)
- Hamburgian hunter-gatherers in the area of the ice-pushed ridges of the central Netherlands. Combining information from old collections and newly discovered sites (H. Peeters, E. Rensink)
- A Late Preboreal site from Zwolle, province of Overijssel, and some remarks on the Ahrensburgian in the Netherlands (M. J. L. Th. Niekus, G. R. Boekschoten, J. H. C. Deeben
-Reconsidering Tienray Op de Hees: Creswellian or Federmesser? (J. P. van Veldhuizen, A. Verpoorte)
- It's all about volume – New observations on specific aspects of core reduction at the Belloisian site Donnemarie-Dontilly (Seine-et-Marne, France) (M.-J. Weber, B. Valentin, P. Bodu)
- From one camp to another. First results of a comparative techno-economic analysis of the Federmesser-Gruppen lithic industries from the Central Rhineland (L. Mevel, S. B. Grimm)
- Megaloceros, reindeer and elk – first AMS-14C-datings on Final Palaeolithic finds from Westphalia (western Germany) (M. Baales et al.)
- One in a hundred – the rediscovery of a potential arrow shaft from Stellmoor (Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany) (S. Hartz, M.-J. Weber, J. Meadows, S. Klooss)
- Alt Duvenstedt LA 121 revisited – Blade technology in Ahrensburgian culture (I. M. Berg-Hansen)
- The Federmesser site of Borneck-Ost, Ahrensburg tunnel valley: revised results and new perspectives following a re-analysis of the lithic material (J. K. Kotthaus)
- Klein Lieskow 120 – a Late Federmesser site with Malaurie points in Lower Lusatia (Brandenburg, Germany) (V. Neubeck)
- Demographic studies of hunters and gatherers in the European Late Upper Palaeolithic (I. Kretschmer)
- Raw material distribution in the Late Palaeolithic of Bohemia and Moravia (M. Monik, J. Eigner)
- Arch-Backed and Tanged Points Technocomplexes in the northern Carpathians. The current stage of research (P. Valde-Nowak, A. Kraszewska, D. Stefański)
- Lateglacial human occupation in the Lubrza region (Lagow Lake District, Western Poland) (I. Sobkowiak-Tabaka, I. Okuniewska-Nowaczyk, M. Ratajczak Szczerba)
- Bone working practices in Final Palaeolithic Poland: an example of a three-edged bone point from Lisi Ogon, site 13 (J. Gorlowska G. Osipowicz)
- Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flint collections from the Chełmno-Dobrzyn Lakeland, central Poland. Functional structure and preferences in tool production (G. Osipowicz)
- A first glimpse of the organisation of space in the Late Palaeolithic of Latvia (I. Zagorska, M. Winiarska-Kabacinska)
- Late Palaeolithic settlement of Latvia confirmed by radiocarbon dating of bone and antler artefacts (I. Zagorska, B. V. Eriksen, J. Meadows, V. Zelcs)
- Colonization of the Valdai Highland in the Final Palaeolithic (G. V. Sinitsyna)
- The bottom layer of Zolotoruchje 1 and transformation from the final Paleolithic to the Mesolithic on the Upper Volga basin (M. Zhilin)