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

在最后一次冰期结束时(11600年前)，旧石器时代晚期狩猎采集群体最后一次在欧洲低地定居。直到今天，许多有助于更好地理解这一时期的科学问题还没有得到充分的澄清，需要进一步研究。这包括关于这些清单的文化年表分类、它们的起源、迁移或假定的互动网络的过程的问题。回答这一问题的主要问题之一是缺乏这些时间段的绝对日期，以及现代标准发掘的晚古时代遗址很少。易北河和奥德河之间的地区具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那里附近。尤其是德国东北部的这一地区，是费德梅勒团体、布罗姆文化、阿伦斯堡人和可能的斯威德勒人社会之间的交界处。此外，该地区拥有众多的沼泽、壶洞和湖泊，为回收具有科学价值的有机物质提供了极好的条件，这对回答上述问题至关重要。因此，该项目的主要目标是对具有文化层的代表性考古遗址进行本地化和探索，这也产生了有机材料，并有可能为年代学、自然环境和相互作用网络提供新的见解。主要关注的是德国东北部低地的斯维德里-阿伦斯堡建筑群。在此背景下，该项目旨在利用考古测量和勘探方法以及密集的考古生物学采样框架和地貌调查来定位和探索这些文化层。如果结果是肯定的，这些已找到的区域将在随后的项目阶段使用现代挖掘方法进行挖掘。该项目的成果将对目前关于中欧低地北部晚冰川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期冰川社会的理解。

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.