Ergänzungsmaterial zu: Diachronic Perspectives on Upper Palaeolithic Landscape Accessibility / Jungpaläolithische Landschafts-Akzessibilität im diachronen Vergleich

Relief, as well as the predominant vegetation strongly influence walking speed and thus the size of foraging ranges around camp sites: the catchments. Throughout the Upper Palaeolithic, landscapes are shaped by various climatic developments, requiring adaptations of subsistence strategies.

A diachronic and supra-regional comparison of catchment sizes promises to shed light on such adaptive processes. This study seeks to model Upper Palaeolithic site catchments in consideration of different landcovers, depending on changing climatic conditions in Western and Central Europe. Such large-scale comparisons of catchment sizes have not yet been the topic of extensive research.