The Faunal Remains from Gonnersdorf

by Martin Street and Elaine Turner

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Hardback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9783795427658

8.27 x 11.77 inches

Price: $44.00

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The Magdalenian open air site of Gonnersdorf (Rhineland, Germany) continues to provide new insights into the organisation of Upper Palaeolithic human societies. This analysis of the faunal remains investigates the ways in which the Magdalenian site occupants incorporated hunting and subsistence into their daily life and social organisation.


The long-awaited analysis of the faunal remains goes far beyond a mere presentation of primary archaeozoological data to investigate the ways in which the Magdalenian site occupants incorporated hunting and subsistence into their daily life and social organisation. Methods including targeted strategies of radiocarbon dating, analyses of mortality patterns of horse, the main prey animal, meticulous recording of evidence for butchery, and the plotting and interpretation of spatial patterning of animal remains place the faunal data in context. Integrating these approaches the authors have produced a convincing description of a Magdalenian settlement occupied seasonally in response to environmental opportunities and constraints, organised according to a strict spatial template and functioning as a semi-permanent village, thus foreshadowing the fullsedentarism emerging in the contemporary Near East.

  • By (author) Martin Street
  • By (author) Elaine Turner