Hamburgian

A Late Upper Palaeolithic culture of north Germany and the Low Countries, contemporary with the Magdalenian of France, c 13,000-11,750 BP. It was the culture of the first people to colonize north Germany and the Low Countries after the final retreat of the Pleistocene ice sheets had made the area available for settlement. The Hamburgians may have been the descendants of Eastern Gravettian or peripheral Magdalenian groups. They were reindeer hunters whose tools are small, single-shouldered points, harpoons, endscrapers, microburins, and 'zinken' (small beaked borers used for working antler).

A late glacial culture of Northern Europe. At the site of Meiendorf near Hamburg and at other sites in north Germany and Holland reindeer-hunters’ camps are found which date from about 11,000 be. Although they have quite a lot in common with the contemporary Magdalenian, they have been grouped under a separate name, Ham-burgian. Characteristic tools are shouldered points and stout piercers called zinken.