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Brandstrukturen im späten Magdalénien
Betrieb, Nutzung und Funktion
The use of fire was one of the decisive milestones in the evolution of humans and their behaviour. Over the course of thousands of years, the element of fire became increasingly important. To this day, it plays a central role in human life - a role that goes far beyond craft and culinary use: fire increasingly became the centre of social life and ultimately forms the basis of our civilisation.
The multi-layered evaluation of Palaeolithic fire structures and their immediate surroundings provides important contributions to the understanding of the spatial and social behaviour of hunter-gatherer groups, not least in the context of the emergence of supra-regional sets of rules, which become archaeologically tangible especially in the late Upper Palaeolithic.
A comparative, diachronic evaluation of fire structures requires a standardised and generally applicable methodological apparatus. With the present work, a starting point was created, based on the partly excellently preserved hearth features from the Late Magdalenian. On this basis, it was possible to develop a comprehensive set of methods and at the same time to test them for their applicability and significance. In this way, a detailed picture of the use and significance of fire after the peak of the last cold period was created.
