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Subject and Keywords:

experimental archaeology   Late Glacial   spear thrower   Hamburgian   shouldered points

Abstract:

The first people to re-colonize the European Plain were hunter-gatherer groups identified with the Hamburg culture. These groups actively hunted and for hunting they used weapons tipped with a specific type of points, called the Hamburgian shouldered points (Kerbspitze). To this day, there is an ongoing debate among scientists about setting these blades in motion, which gives rise to two dominant theories. The technology of the bow and arrow is opposed to the technology of the thrower and dart. This paper aims to bring closer the problems of this issue. By juxtaposing the interpretation of hunting-related artefacts, the analysis of Hamburg blades from the Olbrachcice 8 site and an archaeological experiment carried out with the use of replicas of hunting tools, it will try to identify the dominant technology used by Hamburgian reindeer hunters.

Degree discipline:

archaeology

Resource Type:

text

Identifier:

ISSN 0520-9250   ISBN 978-83-61416-15-9

DOI:

doi:10.34616/ssa.2022.64.5.12

Language:

pol

Abstract Language :

eng

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Attribution, NoDerivatives

License:

Creative Commons - Attribution, NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND 4.0)   click here to follow the link

Rights holder:

Copyright by the Authors and Institute of Archaeology University of Wrocław

Autor opisu:

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