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1100  2024$c2024-09-19
1500  eng
2051  10.57892/100-85
3000  Corradini, Erica
3010  Rabbel, Wolfgang
3010  Wilken, Dennis
3010  Wunderlich, Tina
4209  Understanding the landscape evolution and human-environmental interaction within it is one of the key tasks of early Holocene research. As mobile hunter–gatherers leave few traces of structural organization, understanding their habitats is relevant for comprehending these people. Rarely does the spatial distribution of artifacts correspond to the real pattern of past human activity, but rather shows the pattern of identified artifacts. Geophysical investigations try to fill this gap and have been applied increasingly in archaeological prospection delivering landscape reconstruction, which are verified and fine-tuned using corings and excavations. Despite promising 3D models, a tool to predict the location of undiscovered former human presence and the conditions which influenced people to move across the landscape is not well developed. The primary goal of this paper is to present a methodology for connecting spatial patterns of past human activity based on archaeological and geophysical data. We discuss different GPR (ground-penetrating radar) facies classified at the shoreline of the former Lake Duvensee and geomorphological variables, which leads to the possibility of understanding where and why people chose preferred areas to settle on former islands. We also demonstrate that Mesolithic hunter–gatherer groups preferred dry areas with access to open water for short-term campsites and flatter and more protected areas for specialized and repeatedly occupied campsites. The cardinal orientation of a campsite seems to be secondary to the local peat over-growing process and access to water.
4950  https://doi.org/10.57892/100-85$xR$3Volltext$534
4961  https://opendata.uni-kiel.de/receive/fdr_mods_00000085
5051  550
5550  Archäologische Prospektion
5550  Dreidimensionales Modell
5550  Fazies
5550  Ground Penetrating Radar
5550  Mustererkennung