Klosterlund

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Klosterlund ( German  monastery grove ) is a between 8000 and 7000 BC Chr. Mainly in Jutland spread frühmesolithische cultural group with time overlaps with the older Maglemose- (8300-6000 v. Chr.) And at the same time starting, but something more permanent Gudenå culture (8000-4000 v. Chr.).

distribution

The distribution area formed a large contiguous area with Denmark, England, Northern Germany and Sweden at 100 m lower sea level.

Climate and fauna

Climatically, it is the Boreal , an early warm period (8690–7270 BC) with sparse birch forests interspersed with pines, which displaced the flora of the arctic tundra . The fauna changed according to the shifted climate belt. Ultimately, primarily forest animals such as aurochs , roe deer, red deer, wood bison and wild boar were hunted . The finds from Star Carr (in Yorkshire ), Klosterlund (in Jutland) and Pinneberg (in Holstein ) are representative. In Klosterlund in Central Jutland, a number of people settled for a short time on a low sandy terrace that sloped down to a lake. The living space was on the border between moraine and heather near today's Klosterlund farm.

Finds

Due to the lime-poor soil, only flint and rock tools have survived. Devices made of bones, antlers or wood were not preserved. Among the flint tools , axes are to be mentioned, which were made either by completely hewing the flint as a core and pointed ax or from a cut as a disc ax.

Otherwise, Klosterlund appears as a blade culture with chopping knives (with a blunt-cut long side as the back, while the other side is sharply worked out), core or blade scrapers (long edges unprocessed; most with a curved and retouched edge), edge pricks (corner pricks), center pricks and drills. Spear and arrowheads are almost exclusively lanceolate and rarely as oblique triangles with less pronounced stems (compared to the Ahrensburg handle tips). Simple microliths also occur. For knocking the blade was a Schlagstein of quartzite used. The Klosterlund group, which was influenced by the southern Ahrensburg late Magdalenian people , is even regarded by some researchers as the forerunner of the Maglemose culture, and thus somewhat older.

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