Methods
Additionally to the usual methods in modern Palaeolithic research, the following methods are being applied and developed further in the field and during the analyses:
- Manual with all necessary information for the excavation is accessible to all excavation workers and associates (Frick and Hoyer, 2009, 2011, 2012)
- Several 3D-scannings
- GigaPixel Panorama Photography
- 3D modelling of finds, profiles and horizons
- 3D model and reconstruction of the cave interior
- Geological structural investigations
- Georadar (Ground Penetrating Radar GPR)
- Micromorphology (thin section analyses of sediments)
- pedological analyses (soil composition eg.)
- pollen analyses
- AMS radiocarbon dating (Groningen and Oxford) and other radiogen dating methods
- determination of raw materials, provenance study
- experiments
- impact tests on different lithic and faunal materials
- heating lithic materials (Frick et al., in preparation)
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