I've discovered a sort of sudden fascination with stone age man, particularly in the period just prior to the discovery of metalworking, the Mesolithic. Seeing as there's no /r/askprehistorians I figured I'd hope someone here has some recommended reading/watching/listening. I'm interested in all aspects of life in the period, and I would appreciate sources for other geographical areas in the same period as well.
Thanks.
for me it seems that the end of the paleolithic age is a kind of a historical white spot, and there are more wild theorys to find than actual data based on research.
nowadays Hungary is a hot spot in archeology. new sites and fossils are found at each highway consturctuion. Bánffy Eszter - vice president of the Hungarian Scientific Academy - stated they have found the traces of the first stone age hunters. some officials urge to stop the building operations to get a closer look on the new sites.
the carpathian basin offers already a dozens of nice quarrys from the end of the paleolithic age. the two biggest sites Vértesszőlős and Istállós-kő are well known. the Seleta-cave, offers a big range of fossils from 50.000 BCE - 10.000 BCE. Ringer Árpád and Mester Zsolt shared the result of their research about the Szeleta Culture.
main quarrys with fossils from 10.000 BCE - 7.500 BCE are Hont, Sződliget, Kőporostető, the Avas- és a Korlát-hegy near Miskolc.
Vértes lászló was a lead archeologist in this topic, wrote many books about the end of the paleolithic.
the other main mesolithic quarry sites are Jászberény, Csór-Merítőpuszta, Kaposhomok, Lovas, Máriaremete-Remete-barlang, Nádasdladány, Szekszárd-Palánk and Regöly. Kertész Róbert made some nice publications about this era.
and finally after teasing you with hungarian language you deserve something in english: found this nice article about the croatian Sandalja quarry, it fits perfectly in the era in your description.
edit:format