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Is it possible to identify regional groups in the archaeological record of the Magdalenian in Central Europe? If yes, what is the nature of these groups and how do they interrelate? And what do the results imply for the current view of the recolonization of Central Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum? These and other questions—central to the study at hand—are posed in Chap. 1. The introduction explains the delimitation of the investigated area referred to as “Central Europe,” gives a first overview of the scope of this study and the sites integrated in its analyses, and briefly explains its outline and conduct.
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Maier, A. (2015). Introduction to the Central European Magdalenian: Area, Corpus, and Major Questions. In: The Central European Magdalenian. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7206-8_1
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