Die jungpaläolithische Freilandstation Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Niederösterreich

At the beginning of the 20th Century finds at Langmannersdorf an der Perschling induced heightened interest. After trial excavations 1904–1907, Josef Bayer (Natural History Museum, Vienna) directed intensive excavations in 1919–1920, which brought to light a palaeolithic camp site. In 1953, Wilhelm Angeli (Prehistorical Department of the Natural History Museum, Vienna) published Bayer’s logs and his own analysis of the findings, including communications with other specialists. He considered the locality “as a derivate of the (classical) Aurignacien” and suggested that it be incorporated into the “late Upper Palaeolithic industries”. Following on from an archaeo-zoological evaluation of historical excavations in the 1990s, the partly damaged material was brought together again in 2000/01 and was restored, as part of an Academy of Science Prehistoric Commission research project (“Paleolithic industrial circles before the last ice maximum between 32.000 and 20.000 BC from archeological and paleological Aspects”). Within this project, the authors reviewed the faunal remains and the lithic works. Their results are now shown in this edition.