https://opendata.uni-kiel.de/receive/fdr_mods_00000085 https://opendata.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/fdr_derivate_00000088/Duvensee_GPR_2023.zip https://opendata.uni-kiel.de/rsc/thumbnail/fdr_mods_00000085.png 2024-09-19 data set Geophysical data: GPR Data Interpretation (3D model, pattern recognition) Duvensee 2023 database Understanding the landscape evolution and human-environmental interaction within it is one of the key tasks of early Holocene research. As mobile hunter–gatherers leave few traces of structural organization, understanding their habitats is relevant for comprehending these people. Rarely does the spatial distribution of artifacts correspond to the real pattern of past human activity, but rather shows the pattern of identified artifacts. Geophysical investigations try to fill this gap and have been applied increasingly in archaeological prospection delivering landscape reconstruction, which are verified and fine-tuned using corings and excavations. Despite promising 3D models, a tool to predict the location of undiscovered former human presence and the conditions which influenced people to move across the landscape is not well developed. The primary goal of this paper is to present a methodology for connecting spatial patterns of past human activity based on archaeological and geophysical data. We discuss different GPR (ground-penetrating radar) facies classified at the shoreline of the former Lake Duvensee and geomorphological variables, which leads to the possibility of understanding where and why people chose preferred areas to settle on former islands. We also demonstrate that Mesolithic hunter–gatherer groups preferred dry areas with access to open water for short-term campsites and flatter and more protected areas for specialized and repeatedly occupied campsites. The cardinal orientation of a campsite seems to be secondary to the local peat over-growing process and access to water. en 550 his Host institution aut Author Corradini, Erica 0000-0003-4266-8589 Corradini Erica 10.57892/100-85 Wilken, Dennis aut Author 0000-0002-5128-351X Wilken Dennis Wunderlich, Tina aut Author 0000-0003-2275-704X Wunderlich Tina Rabbel, Wolfgang aut Author 0000-0003-4720-6906 Rabbel Wolfgang Dreibrodt, Stefan ctb Contributor 0000-0003-4812-0258 Dreibrodt Stefan Wieckowska-Lüth, Magdalena ctb Contributor Wieckowska-Lüth Magdalena Lübke, Harald ctb Contributor Lübke Harald Schmölcke, Ulrich ctb Contributor Schmölcke Ulrich Brozio, Jan Piet ctb Contributor Brozio Jan Piet 2022 2023 2023 290391021 Archäologische Prospektion Ground Penetrating Radar Fazies Dreidimensionales Modell Mustererkennung Duvensee 53.697691, 10.546674 53.702007, 10.545199 We use the data and results of two GPR campaigns. The first was carried out in 2016 using a GSSI SIR4000 GPR unit with 200 MHz frequency antenna, covering 63 ha of the former lake. The second was carried out in 2018 using a 16 channel 400 MHz MALÅ Imaging Radar Array (MIRA) with 8 cm in-line and cross-line trace spacing. Beside geophysics, we decided to incorporate some geo-spatial variables, creating a novel approach to investigate which factors influenced human occupation at ancient Lake Duvensee. Our approach consists of using the selected horizons of each GPR facies interface to create grids and calculating geo-spatial parameters with GRASS GIS. Data formats: .pdf; .txt; .png; .dat; grd; .tif fdr_mods_00000085 https://opendata.uni-kiel.de/receive/fdr_mods_00000085