Gudenå culture
The Gudenå culture (actually Gudenå group) is a variant of the Mesolithic Maglemose culture that was only widespread in Jutland and Zealand with a different blade industry and a different choice of living space . It was spread over England , Belgium , northern Germany , Denmark , southern Sweden and the Baltic states . It is named after the place where it was found near Tørring , near the sources of the Gudenå river , but is no longer regarded as an independent culture by "younger archeology " in Denmark . At the time of the Gudenå culture, the Belte and Sunde of the Baltic Sea were not yet straits, but river valleys; the coast had a different course before the onset of the post-glacial uplift . The land surface initially had the character of a tundra , later that of a park tundra .
There are more than 100 residential places in the preboreal and the boreal with such finds. The Gudenå people lived on inland meadows and lakes. In contrast to the other Maglemose people, they preferred flat, sandy banks that sloped down towards the water. House finds were not made. Hearths and pits up to 0.5 m deep with the remains of fireplaces are known. The lack of calcium in the soil made organic objects disappear completely. The range of blades goes back to the finds from Klosterlund (7500-7000 BC) in Central Jutland, which are exhibited in a small museum. The focus is on drills, knives, burins , scrapers and the trapezoidal, rhombic or cross-edged arrowheads made from microliths . The large blades may have served as spearheads. The ax made using nuclear technology appears as a cross-ax, straight ax and asymmetrical oblique ax and forms the counterpart to the antler and bone implements of the rest of the Maglemose culture.
literature
- E. Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age . 1999, ISBN 3-406-42125-3