New warm season data from the full-glacial mammoth hunters camp site at Langmannersdorf an der Perschling (Lower Austria)

The 21 ka BP Epiaurignacian Langmannersdorf locality is currently agreed to be the youngest known site within the Middle Danube region that has been interpreted as a residential camp site at which abundant mammoth bones have been found. It has been fully excavated between 1904 and 1920. W. Angeli published a monograph in 1953 using the old field work logs, photographs and sketches of the systematic excavation. Recently a re-assessment study including the typological character of the 3,844 stone artefacts and a zooarchaeological analysis were carried out. Mammoths were recognized as the main subsistence source, followed by reindeer. Nearly all body parts of the mammoth have been found in the remains preserved. Two neonate mammoths, 8-12 months old arctic and red fox individuals, two 9-12 months old wolves and a one year old reindeer individual indicate that the encampment was used during the late winter and spring/summer season. 18 new seasonality data from root cementum analysis support the assumption that the site was occupied during the first summer months.