Formation of the cultural landscape of the modern Kaliningrad region in the stone age
... played a decisive role in the formation of the region’s cultural landscape. In the Stone Age, anthropogenic changes in the natural environment were minimal and were mainly noticed in separate components of the natural landscape. At the boundary of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, megafauna species — mammoths, woolly rhinos and turs — disappeared from the territory of the region. The reindeer population decreased significantly and completely disappeared in the middle of the Mesolithic....
