The sett lement of the North European Plain in the Late Pleniglacial in the light of palaeoenivronmental evidence

Abstract

The presented paper is an attempt to analyse the available paleoenvironmental and settlement data not only to demonstrate that already at the end of the Pleniglacial (Greenland Stadial GS-2) the conditions on the Plain were favourable for the existence of human societies, but also to present evidence for the development of the Lowland settlement before the Gl-le phase of the Late Glacial