Eating crow or a feather in one's cap: The avifauna from the Magdalenian sites of Gonnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg (Germany)

摘要

The Central Rhineland Magdalenian sites Gonnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg produced an extremely rich corpus of diverse archaeological finds, including some 14,500 faunal remains at Gonnersdorf and some 4000 at Andernach. Faunal studies have focused on the large game, mainly horse, however favourable conditions of preservation at both sites provide an opportunity to examine not only smaller mammal taxa, but also for detailed analyses of the avifauna. Here we present results of these analyses focussing in particular on the economical and social role of birds in Magdalenian life.