Hamburg culture
The Hamburg culture or Hamburgian 15,500-13,100 BP was a behind Weichsel Glaciation beginning during a Bölling interstadial. Sites are foundto the ice caps of the time. They go forward as far north as the Pomeranian ice margin.
The Hamburg Culture has been forwarded at numerous places, for example, the settlement at Meiendorf together with Ahrensburg north of Hamburg, Germany. this is the characterized by shouldered points as well as zinken tools, which were used as chisels when working with antler. In later periods tanged Havelte-type points appear, sometimes subject as near of any a northwestern phenomenon. Notwithstanding the spread over a large geographical area in which a homogeneous development is non to be expected, the definition of the Hamburgian as a technological complex of its own has not recently been questioned.
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In northern Germany, camps with layers of detritus develope been found. In the layers there is a great deal of horn and bone, and it appears that the reindeer was an important prey.
The distribution of the finds in the settlements show that the settlements were small and only inhabited by a small office of people. At a few settlements, archaeologists have discovered circles of stones, interpreted as weights for a teepee covering.
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