Hi,

in Molodova I might have been the kind of structure you are looking for (fig. 4):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257453499_Mammoths_used_as_food_and_building_resources_by_Neanderthals_Zooarchaeological_study_applied_to_layer_4_Molodova_I_Ukraine

You are also looking for post-Neanderthal examples?

Best regards,

Stefan

Article Mammoths used as food and building resources by Neanderthals...

Yes, anything in a prehistoric context -- Palaeolithic is particularly great -- but anything pre-writing would also be useful. And thank you for your response! I'll check out your paper!

Dear Michelle

The Gravettian site Krems-Wachtberg in Austria shows an occupation surface with a large multi-phased hearth and a small unspecific hearth located a few meters away. The small hearth only consisted of a layer of charcoal above burnt sediment and contained no archaeological material. However, it was possible to connect charcoal from both hearths by tree ring analyses.

See for example:

Cichocki, O., et al., Archaeological significance of the Palaeolithic charcoal assemblage from Krems-Wachtberg,

Quaternary International (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.004

Händel, M., et al., Krems-Wachtberg excavations 2005e12: Main profiles, sampling, stratigraphy, and site

formation, Quaternary International (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.024

Best,

Marc

Dear Marc,

Thank you for your response. I have had the pleasure of visiting Krems-Wachtberg -- the twins burial is just heartbreaking! I will read your papers with interest!

Best, 

Michelle.

Dear Michelle,

the best examples I know you can find in the Paris basin. These are the magdalenian sites of Pincevent level IV-0 and level IV-20 and Etiolles unit U5/P15. Level II-1 of the site of Verberie could be interesting, too.

You can also have a look to the site of Monruz in Switzerland. But maybe you know all of them? If you are interested in literature, just tell me. I wrote my phd-thesis about magdalenian campfires and surrounding activity areas.

Best,

Frank

During my thesis research, I was able to identify an earlier smaller occupation within the "noise" of a later intensively occupied mound site occupied in central Arkansas, USA during the Late woodland period (ca AD 900). This was done by a GIS nomalizing of the ceramic and raw material types,  However, there are numerous sites along the major river valleys of the U.S. that fit your description, although the temporal periods may vary.

Hello  Michelle, I have a question about your question, what are you trying to find? duplicates  of activities  at a smaller scale that can be assigned to children's or adults doing more temporary activities, or more simply areas that are complementary by there function to "central" ones into houses and positioned outside?

Hi Ramiro, 

I am looking for duplicates of activities at a smaller scale that could represent children playing at adult behaviours -- ethnographically, children in different hunter-gatherer communities have been observed making 'play camps' with everything the adult camps have -- so I'm trying to find possible prehistoric examples. 

Dear Michelle,

in the Hamburgian (Late Upper Palaeolithic) site of Mirkovice 33 in Poland, two small concentrations of artefacts made by flint knappers of low skill level (probably: children or youngsters) were found next to some bigger concentrations of finds, see fig 6. of:

Jakub Mugaj, Lithic technology and spatial structures of the camp as seen in lithic refittings from Hamburgian site at Mirkowice. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 67, 2015, 23–29.

http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=57797

RCIN: Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes.

An article dealing with the lithics of this site ist to find here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292472679_Mirkowice_-_another_settlement_of_the_Hamburgian_culture_at_the_Polish_Plain

Best,

Stefan

Article Mirkowice - another settlement of the Hamburgian culture at ...

Perhaps the attached article is useful. Hogberg identifies possible child flint knapping area next to adults

There are some very well-documented examples of small hearths near larger hearths at the Bugas-Holding site in NW Wyoming. This is a protohistoric site ~500 yrs old with excellent preservation in a very thin cultural deposit (~1-3 cm over most of the site and less than 10 cm in areas where hearth excavation has covered older hearths). There are larger hearths with bison bone processing (some sheep and very few elk) across the excavated area that was the first test of some careful piece plotting. In the southern part of the site are 3 much smaller stone boiling hearths (probably used to extract bone grease from cancellous articular ends of bones). One is covered by backdirt providing some sequencing to their use. Excellent bone refitting work across the site helps show movement of anatomical units between hearth and discard areas. 

Rapson, David J., and Lawrence C. Todd. "Conjoins, contemporaneity, and site structure: distributional analysis of the Bugas-Holding site." BAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES 578 (1992): 238-238.