CZY ISTNIAŁA KULTURA BROMME?
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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WHETHER THE BROMME CULTURE EXISTED?
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Substantial progress in the Final Palaeolithic studies in Central and Eastern Europe over the
last three decades sheds a new light on the problem of the Bromme culture. It turned out that the Lyngby
points, known also as ‘fossile directeur’, have been found in a large number far away from the core area of
the Bromme culture. Their presence in these areas has been interpreted by many scholars as an indication
of arrival of the groups from southern Scandinavia. However, detailed analysis of these projectile points
indicates that they comprised an excellent and efficient hunting weapon commonly adopted by all tundra
hunters. By no means they can be treated as a cultural marker. Moreover, it is not at all clear whether the
Bromme culture existed? Majority of studies used to focus upon flint artefact typology. However, its heuristic
potential in the discussed area has been exhausted and its further continuation is counterproductive.
Alternative research strategy is needed aimed at recognition of cultural differentiation in Final Palaeolithic
and Mesolithic along with different aspects of hunter-gatherers existence such as subsistence pattern,
space organisation in settlement, social organisation, spiritual life, anthropological structure, etc. This new
approach is the only means of objective reconstruction of cultural differentiation of the oldest periods of
the European prehistory.
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Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia, 2009, Tom XV, s. 75-91.