Comments Concerning the Gaps between Schleswig-Holstein and the Middle Oder in the Expansion Area of Hamburgian Culture
Volume 7 (2006), pp. 8–10
Pub. online: 20 December 2006
Type: Article
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Received
20 December 2005
20 December 2005
Published
20 December 2006
20 December 2006
Abstract
The author maintains that the soils formed by the Pomeranian Glacier during the Bölling Interstadial at the time of Hamburgian Culture stood under rising moisture and were not yet lixiviated enough. The main food sources of reindeer, especially reindeer-moss (Cladonia rangiferina) and dwarf birch-trees (Betula nana), require a sandy, dry, non-calcareous soil and therefore could not flourish in the highly calcareous moraine clay.
Because the reindeer herds probably avoided the plains in eastern Germany between Schleswig-Holstein and the Middle Oder during the Bölling Interstadial, it is highly improbable that the discovery of any sites of Hamburgian Culture in this area could be reckoned with in the future.