Swiderian culture

The spread of Poland to Hungary Swiderien (13000-9500 BC) is the name of a jungpaläolitischen appliance industry which is named on the dunes of the Vistula Terrace near Warsaw in Poland to the field station Świdry Wielkie.

The Swiderien is considered Eastern European form of the Magdalenian and is next to Ahrensburg and Bromme assigned to the stem tip groups. Flint tools have mainly symmetrical shapes. Typical are the partly flat retouched stem tips and cusps. Other devices finds are graver, drills, scrapers, and saws. In relation to the geometric microlites younger stage is also referred to as Swidero - Tardenoisian.