Going New Places: Dispersal and Establishment of the Aurignacian Technocomplex in Europe During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3)

Paquin, Simon; Albouy, Benjamin; Hinz, Martin; Burke, Ariane (2023). Going New Places: Dispersal and Establishment of the Aurignacian Technocomplex in Europe During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3). In: Seuru, Samuel; Albouy, Benjamin (eds.) Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (pp. 47-59). Cham: Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-34336-0_3

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The first Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) populations to disperse into and across Europe during the climatically unstable period that is Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) lived through relatively rapid stadial and interstadial oscillations. The Aurignacian technocomplex, including the Protoaurignacian and the Early Aurignacian, is associated with this phenomenon. A primordial step in understanding the relationship between humans and these fluctuations is to establish a chronologically robust set of archaeological data across the European continent which can be confidently associated with climatic conditions. This paper suggests a classification of Aurignacian archaeological layers across Europe into GICC05 cycles based on a critical review of published dates and environmental studies. The resulting classification allows new diachronic observations on population dynamics and demography for the Aurignacian AMH groups in relation to the drastic environmental changes taking place in Europe at this time.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Pre- and Early History
UniBE Contributor:	Hinz, Martin, Burke, Ariane
Subjects:	500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology 900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
ISBN:	978-3-031-34335-3
Series:	Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
Publisher:	Springer
Language:	English
Submitter:	Martin Hinz
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2023 11:34
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2023 11:36
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-34336-0_3
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/185219