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Papers by Erwin Cziesla
This huge study analyses the cultural conditions amongst late communities of hunter-gatherers in Central Europe. Considering the working technique of flint artefacts, a distribution-area of dorso-ventral base-retouched arrowheads emerged in the Late Pre-Boreal (since ca. 8,900 cal.BC) including France, Benelux and both Banks of the River Rhine up to Switzerland and clearly distict from neighbouring regions. This Major Zone remained stable in subsequent Millennia - during the Boreal and Atlantic periods. In the Late Mesolithic, local subtypes emerged, and three types of arrowheads showed dorso-ventral base-preparations ("Rhine-Meuse-Schelde-Culture-B", Danubian- and Bavans-Points). Taken together, these do not only confirm the stability of the distribution pattern over 4 millinnea, but their occurrence coincides with Mesolithic pottery of types Limbourg and La Hoguette. This pottery, until now concidered a derivate of the Western Meditteranean Cardial Culture, is now older than this and now connected with the Western French coast as regards its origin. Also during the Linear Pottery Culture the distribution (now called "Se-Sa-Rhe-tradition-area") remained stable, and notions of a cooperation between Mesolithic and Neolithic populations are discussed.