Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. [ancient European styles and periods]
7. [European Mesolithic styles and periods]

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the northern European Mesolithic period and culture that existed from around 12,000 to around 10,000 Before Present. The culture probably developed from Magdalenians who left south-western Europe to follow reindeer during a period of retreating Würm glatiation, and it is characterized by a variety of tools, including bone awls, skinners, scrapers, needles, elastic strips made by soaking reindeer antlers, and some simple decoration such as V-patterns and strokes. The culture occupied an area from southern Holstein to Hannover, with winters probably spent south of the Elbe river. Some scholars believe it may have had ties to eastern Europe. It was succeeded by the Ahrensburgian culture.