The earliest settlement in northeastern Germany. Interdisciplinary explorations to discover undisturbed cultural layers and of late-glacial landscape development.

在最后一个冰河时期（11600年前）的末期，欧洲的低地最后一次被旧石器时代晚期的狩猎采集群体定居下来。直到今天，许多科学问题，导致更好地了解这一时期还没有得到充分澄清，需要进一步调查。这包括有关文化的时间顺序分类的库存，其起源，迁移或假设的互动网络的过程中的问题。回答这个问题的主要问题之一是缺乏这些时期的绝对年代测定，以及现代标准的晚期古文明遗址发掘很少。易北河和奥得河之间的地区有很高的科学潜力来回答这些问题，特别是因为不同的旧石器时代晚期社会生活在附近。特别是德国东北部地区是Federmesser群体、Bromme文化、Ahrensburgian和可能的Swiderian社会之间的界面区域。此外，该地区拥有众多的沼泽、壶穴和湖泊，为回收可确定科学年代的有机物质提供了极好的条件，这对于回答上述问题至关重要。因此，该项目的主要目标是定位和探索具有文化层的代表性考古遗址，这也产生了有机材料，并有可能为年表，自然环境和互动网络提供新的见解。主要关注的是德国东北部低地的Swidry-Ahrensburgian复合体。在此背景下，该项目旨在利用考古调查和勘探方法，以及密集的考古生物学取样框架和地貌调查，对这些文化层进行定位和探索。如果结果是肯定的，这些区域将在随后的项目阶段使用现代挖掘方法进行挖掘。该项目的结果将对目前关于中欧低地北方晚冰期社会的讨论作出重要贡献。此外，它们将有助于提高我们对晚冰期社会的理解。

At the end of the last glacial period (11600 years ago), the European lowland was settled for the last time by late palaeolithic hunter-gatherer groups. Until today, many scientific questions which leads to a better understanding of this time period have not been sufficiently clarified and require further investigation. This includes questions concerning the cultural chronological classification of the inventories, the process of their origin, migration or the assumed interaction networks. One of the main problems in answering that questions concerns the lack of absolute datings from these time period as well as the fact that modern standard excavations of late palaeoltihic sites are seldom. The area between the Elbe and Oder river has a high scientific potential for answering such questions, especially because different late palaeolithic societies lived there in close vicinity. The area in north-east Germany in particular is an interface area between inventories of Federmesser groups, the Bromme culture, Ahrensburgian and possibly Swiderian societies. In addition, this area with its numerous bogs, kettle holes and lakes offers excellent conditions for the recovery of scientifically datable organic material, which is essential for answering the above issues. Thus, the primary goals of the project are the localisation and exploration of representative archaeological sites with cultural layers, which also yields organic material and have the potential to provide new insights into chronology, the natural environment and interaction networks. The main focus is on Swidry-Ahrensburgian-complexes in the lowland of north-east Germany. Against this background, the project aims to localize and explore these cultural layers using archaeological surveying and prospecting methods in addition of an intense archaeobiological sampling framework as well as geomorphological investigations. In the case of a positive result, these located areas will be excavated in a subsequent project phase using modern excavation methods. The results of the project will give an essential contribution to the current discussion about late glacial societies of the northern part of middle Europe lowlands. Furthermore they will help to improve our comprehension of late glacial societies.