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The ancient lake Duvensee (10,000\u20136500 cal. BCE) has been studied for almost a century, providing archaeological sites consisting of bark mats and hazelnut-roasting hearths situated on small sand banks deposited by the glacier. No method is yet available to locate these features before excavation. Therefore, a key method for understanding the living conditions of hunter-gatherer groups is to reconstruct the paleoenvironment with a focus on the identification of areas that could possibly host Mesolithic camps and well-preserved archaeological artefacts. We performed a 16-channel MAL\u00c5 Imaging Radar Array (MIRA) system survey aimed at understanding the landscape surrounding the find spot Duvensee WP10, located in a hitherto uninvestigated part of the bog. Using an integrated approach of high-resolution ground radar mapping and targeted excavations enabled us to derive a 3D spatio-temporal landscape reconstruction of the investigated sector, including paleo-bathymetry, stratigraphy, and shorelines around the Mesolithic camps. Additionally, we detected previously unknown islands as potential areas for yet unknown dwelling sites. We found that the growth rates of the islands were in the order of approximately 0.3 m2\/yr to 0.7 m2\/yr between the late Preboreal and the Subboreal stages. The ground-penetrating radar surveying performed excellently in all aspects of near-surface landscape reconstruction as well as in identifying potential dwellings; however, the direct identification of small-scale artefacts, such as fireplaces, was not successful because of their similarity to natural structures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030781","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,8]],"date-time":"2022-02-08T23:42:20Z","timestamp":1644363740000},"page":"781","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Finding Mesolithic Sites: A Multichannel Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Investigation at the Ancient Lake Duvensee"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4266-8589","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erica","family":"Corradini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1328-1134","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Gro\u00df","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Museum Lolland-Falster, 4800 Nyk\u00f8bing Falster, Denmark"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2275-704X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tina","family":"Wunderlich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0451-0588","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Harald","family":"L\u00fcbke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf, 24837 Schleswig, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5128-351X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dennis","family":"Wilken","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany"}]},{"given":"Ercan","family":"Erkul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8974-449X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ulrich","family":"Schm\u00f6lcke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf, 24837 Schleswig, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4720-6906","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wolfgang","family":"Rabbel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Van de Noort, R., and O\u2019Sullivan, A. 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