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Abstracts of Reports and Posters Abstracts of Reports and Posters Amira Adaileh The Magdalenian site of Bad Kösen-Lengefeld The open air site of Bad Kösen-Lengefeld is located in Sachsen-Anhalt, Eastern Germany. It was discov- ered in the mid 1950´s in the immediate vicinity of the famous Magdalenian site of Saaleck. Since that time, archaeologists collected over 2000 lithic artifacts during systematical surveys. The technological and typological analyses of the lithic artifacts confirmed the assignment of Bad Kösen-Lengefeld to a late Magdalenian. Furthermore, the investigation of the surface collections brought forward information about the character of this camp site, the duration of its occupation and the pattern of raw material procure- ment. The fact that Bad Kösen-Lengefeld is located in a region with more than 100 Magdalenian sites fostered a comparison of the lithic inventory with other Magdalenian assemblages. Thus, allowing to spec- ify the position of the Lengefeld collection within the chorological context of the Magdalenian in Eastern Germany. Jehanne Affolter, Ludovic Mevel Raw material circulation in northern french alps and Jura during lateglacial interstadial : method, new data and paleohistoric implication Since fifteen years the study of the characterization and origin of flint resources used by Magdalenian and Azilian groups in northern French Alps and Jura have received significant research work. Diverse and well distributed spatially, some of these resources were used and disseminated throughout the late Upper Paleolithic. Which changes do we observe during the Magdalenian then for the Azilian? The results of petrographic analysis and techno-economic analysis to several archaeological sites allow us to assess dia- chronic changes in economic behavior of these people and discuss the significance of these results. Are they contextual or cultural? This can be tested by the parallel of cultural influences and circulation of the materials (lithic and ornaments). Walpurga Antl Excavations at the multilayered Gravettian site Grub/Kranawetberg, Lower Austria 1993-2011 – stratigraphy and outlook to the position of the site within the cultural development in Eastern Central Europe From 1993 to 2011 excavations at the Gravettian 25 ka BP site Grub/Kranawetberg in the March valley near Stillfried in the northeast of Lower Austria exposed two different areas of activity: a bone accumula- tion in the west and approximately 20 m from this situation to the east a multilayered area with dwelling structures. The focus of this contribution will be put on this part of the excavated area. The lowest archaeological layer (AH4) contains two hearths which are approximately 12m apart from each other. Both are surrounded by a series of small pits. Between these two concentrations of pits – in a dis- tance of 7.5 to 8m – there were no pits at all. The density of finds in the zone between the concentrations of pits however is very big. In some parts of the excavated area a sudden decrease of finds can be ob- served: 0.5 to 1m outside the pits around hearth I to the north, west and south and 0.5 to 1m outside the pits around hearth II to the north. This is comparable with the observations of Ph. Nigst (Nigst 2004) in his analysis of the structures around hearth I. Following his study the distribution of artefacts suggests a barrier effect slightly outside the evi- dent structures of hearth I. According to these observations the existence of a second settlement unit around hearth II will be discussed. The following layer (AH3) is separated from AH4 by about 8 to 10 cm of loess. The centre of this occu- pation is situated almost above hearth II, only 2m to the NW of it. In AH3 there are no structures compa- rable to those of AH4. The horizon itself is documented with at least some finds in all parts excavated so far. Above AH3 there are two more archaeological layers (AH2 and AH1) with only some scattered finds. Therefore a first view will concentrate on a comparison of AH4 and AH3. 13 Chronologically both layers are very close together (Antl-Weiser, Fladerer, Nigst, Verpoorte 2010) but there are big differences concerning structure and content. Most of the lithics of AH4 can be compared to Southern Moravian chert or northern flint. Special raw materials are a piece of obsidian presumably from Eastern Slovakia and some pieces of crystal rock. The tools are dominated by microgravettes. There are also three shouldered points in this horizon. Ivory beads and pendants (at least 245 pieces) are exclusively found within AH4. But there are also perforated mollusc shells and Dentalium. AH3 contains no clear evident structures. The raw material mainly consists of brown to green radiolarites, which can be found in the Carpathian Mountains. Among the backed pieces backed bladelets are dominat- ing. There are also differences in the style of retouches. The ornaments only consist of various molluscs. So we can see big differences in the choice of raw material as well as in personal ornaments. The radiocarbon dates from Grub/Kranawetberg are situated at the very end of the Pavlovian and the beginning of Willendorf-Kostenkian of the Gravettian evolution in Central Europe after M. Otte (Otte, Noiret 2002). A shift of population to a certain extent from the former Pavlovian sites to the East is being discussed. At Grub/Kranawetberg we observe a change in settlement structures, lithic raw materials, per- sonal adornments and a different choice of tool types around 25,000 BP. Further charcoal samples have been taken from AH2 and AH1 as well as from the loess below and above the cultural layers. According to the present state of research the inventory of the two layers seems to reflect the presence of groups using different territories. Based on these observations further analyses concerning raw material procurement, the choice of big game and investigations concerning climatic changes will be part of a fu- ture project. Due to a sequence of four cultural layers and 7 m of sedimentological sequence the site promises interesting insights into cultural processes around 25.000 BP in the Eastern part of Central Eu- rope as well as into climatic changes during a longer time span of the late glacial period in this part of Austria. References: Antl-Weiser, W.; Fladerer, F. A.; Nigst, Ph. R.; Verpoorte A. (2010): Grub/Kranawetberg (Lower Aus- tria) – Insights into a Gravettian micro-region in Eastern Austria. In: Neugebauer-Maresch Ch.; Linda Owen (eds.): New aspects of the Central and Eastern European Upper palaeolithic – meth- ods, chronology, technology and subsistence. MPK 72, 2010. Nigst, Ph. R. (2004): Some preliminary observations on intrasite spatial patterning of Grub/Kranawetberg (1995 and 1996 area), In: The Gravettian along the Danube. Proceedings of the Mikulov Confer- ence, 20.-21. November 2002, Institute of Archeology, AS CR, Brno, The Dolni Vestonice Stud- ies, Vol. 11,131-141. Otte, M. ; Noiret, P. (2004): Evolution du Gravettien au moyen Danube. In : J. A. Svoboda, L. Sedlackova (Eds.) : The Gravettian along the Danube. Proceedings of the Mikulov conference, 20-21 No- vember 2002, P. 8-33. Dolni Vestonice Studies 11, Brno. Daniele Aureli1,5, Antonia Contardi2, Biagio Giaccio3, Federica Marano4, Valerio Modesti2, Maria Rita Palombo4, Roxane Rocca5, Flavia Trucco6, Boris Villier7 Entwined evolution? New evidence of the coexistence of Humans and Elephants during the Middle Pleistocene at the Ficoncella site (Central Italy) The two preliminary excavation campaigns carried out on the Ficoncella site have yielded unexpected discoveries which allow us to open of new lines of research as to the technical and cognitive behaviour of Lower Palaeolithic Humans. The discovery, during the first excavation campaign in 2010, of anatomical fragments coming from a car- cass of a Palaeoloxodon within a fluvial context sealed by volcanic strata, dated around 450 Ka, already makes the site of primary interest from a palaeontological point of view. With the second excavation, carried out in 2011, around one hundred lithic artefacts of tiny dimension, localised near the cranium of the Palaeoloxodon were brought to light. This new archaeological evidence opens up new research pro- spects both for the understanding of the technical behaviours of this pivotal moment of the European Lower Palaeolithic (around 500 Ka) as well as cognitive and economic issues surrounding the relationship between man and elephants during the Palaeolithic. 14 1. Università degli Studi di Siena Dip. di Scienze Ambientali "G. Sarfatti" U.R. Ecologia Preistorica Via T. Pen- dola 62 - 53100 Siena, Italy 2. Museo Civico A. Klitsche De La Grange, Palazzo Camerale, Piazza della Repubblica, 29, 00051 Allumiere, Rome, Italy 3. Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, CNR, Via Salaria Km 29,300, 00016 Monterotondo Stazione, Rome, Italy. 4. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, CNR, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Piazzale A. Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. 5. Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense UMR 7041 - ArScAn - équipe AnTET (Anthropologie des techni- ques des espaceset des territoires aux Pliocène et Pléistocène). 6. La Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale, Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9, 00196 Rome, It- aly. 7. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35, I-10125 Torino, Italy. Michel Barbaza Microlaminar cultures and environment at feet of Pyrenees at the end of glacial period The northern pyrenean piedmont, location of many first-time studies on the very end of the last great glacial period, suffers from an evident lack of recent and well informed studies. A few recently published sites, or soon to be published sites, allow nevertheless to present the first elements of analysis and reflec- tion that take the Younger Dryas and the classical Pyrenean Azilian societies into a global consideration. After careful examination, both processes show that their relationships are more complex than those due to simple ecological determinism.
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