miasta-i-wioski: Swabian Jura

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Spätzle (German: [ˈʃpɛtslə] ), Spätzla Knöpfle or Spatzen, also called nokedli (Hungarian: [ˈnokɛdli]), are a type of egg pasta typically served as a side for meat dishes with sauce. Commonly associated with Swabia (hence Swabian spaetzle) and Alsace, it is also found in the cuisines of southern Germany and Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Lorraine, Moselle, Trentino and South Tyrol. It may be served as a side dish or with other ingredients like cheese and onion as a main dish. Spätzle are egg-based pasta of an irregular form with a rough, porous surface. The glutinous dough is put directly into boiling water or steam and the form varies between thin and thick, elongated and short. Spät…

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The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura are a collection of six caves in southern Germany which were used by Ice Age humans for shelter about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago. Within the caves were found the oldest non-stationary works of human art yet discovered, in the form of carved animal and humanoid figurines, in addition to the oldest musical instruments ever found. One statuette of a female form, carved figurines of animals (including cave lions, mammoths, horses and cattle), musical instruments and items of personal adornment have been discovered. Some of the figurines depict creatures that are half animal, half human. Because of their testimony to the development of Paleolithic ar…

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Manufacturing Technology of Bone Needles During the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura. Over more than 150 years of research, the excavation of Magdalenian sites in the Ach and Lone valleys of southwestern Germany has yielded a remarkable cultural richness including important assemblages of lithic materials, faunal remains and symbolic artifacts. A conspicuous presence of bone and antler tools also characterizes the Magdalenian occupation of the two valleys. Our analysis focuses on bone needles and their production waste (n=102) from the Magdalenian, which dates to 16.3 – 13.9 cal Kyr BP. These artifacts originate from Hohle Fels and Brillenhöhle in the Ach Valley and from Langmahdhalde and Vo…

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The Oldest Portable Art: the Aurignacian Ivory Figurines from the Swabian Jura (Southwest Germany). Four cave sites in the Swabian Jura have yielded a spectacular array of portable art: Hohle Fels, Geißenklösterle, Vogelherd, and Hohlenstein-Stadel. Some of these ivory figurines are well known, and others less so. In all, about fifty such objects or fragments of objects are known from the region. They occur in the same archeological levels where have been found musical instruments (flutes) and early examples of painting. Drawing on recent research as well as archival records from earlier excavations, this contribution chose a simple question- and-answer format in order to revisit issues of…

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The origin of iron oolites in the Swabian Jura, Germany

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Host generalists dominate fungal communities associated with alpine knotweed roots: a study of Sebacinales.. Bistorta vivipara is a widespread herbaceous perennial plant with a discontinuous pattern of distribution in arctic, alpine, subalpine and boreal habitats across the northern Hemisphere. Studies of the fungi associated with the roots of B. vivipara have mainly been conducted in arctic and alpine ecosystems. This study examined the fungal diversity and specificity from root tips of B. vivipara in two local mountain ecosystems as well as on a global scale. Sequences were generated by Sanger sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region followed by an analysis of accurately…

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Archaeopedological analysis of colluvial deposits in favourable and unfavourable areas: reconstruction of land use dynamics in SW Germany.. Colluvial deposits, as the correlate sediments of human-induced soil erosion, depict an excellent archive of land use and landscape history as indicators of human-environment interactions. This study establishes a chronostratigraphy of colluvial deposits and reconstructs past land use dynamics in the Swabian Jura, the Baar and the Black Forest in SW Germany. In the agriculturally favourable Baar area multiple main phases of colluvial deposition, and thus intensified land use, can be identified from the Neolithic to the Modern times. In the unfavourable…

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Adaptive capacity and flexibility of the Neanderthals at Heidenschmiede (Swabian Jura) with regard to core reduction strategies.. The branched reduction system at the Heidenschmiede described here is hitherto exceptional for the Middle Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura. By means of refits and supporting objects, we are able to describe a superordinate reduction system that combines several individual reduction concepts, such as Levallois and blade production, within one volume. In the Middle Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura, blade technology has thus far played a rather minor role. On the one hand, it is possible to split a selected volume (nodule) into three parts, which are reduced separatel…

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Habitat Use Across the Geographic Range of <i>Limenitis reducta</i> Reveals Stronger Constraints at the Northern Edge.. Species abundance typically declines toward the edges of geographic ranges, while their conservation relevance increases. Habitat studies therefore often focus on only small parts of species' ranges, potentially biasing our understanding of ecological niches. Here, we compared habitat use of the Southern White Admiral ( Limenitis reducta ) between populations at the northern and near the southern range edge to assess whether and how habitat associations differ across the species' distribution range. The Swabian Jura represents the northern range edge, while the…

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Split-based points from the Swabian Jura highlight Aurignacian regional signatures.. The systematic use of antlers and other osseous materials by modern humans marks a set of cultural and technological innovations in the early Upper Paleolithic, as is seen most clearly in the Aurignacian. Split-based points, which are one of the most common osseous tools, are present throughout most regions where the Aurignacian is documented. Using results from recent and ongoing excavations at Geißenklösterle, Hohle Fels and Vogelherd, we nearly tripled the sample of split-based points from 31 to 87 specimens, and thereby enhance our understanding of the technological economy surrounding the production of…

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