The assemblages of Northern Germany’s Hamburgian tradition, contemporaneous with, but typologically different from, the Upper Magdalenian of France and Spain, are characterized by heavy flake scrapers, end scrapers on blades, borers, and obliquely shouldered implements, called Hamburgian points.

Bone and antler tools, from about 15,000 BCE, include small projectile points, long slender points, knives, knife handles, and single-row barbed harpoons.

The Hamburgians, like the French Magdalenians, are almost entirely dependent on migratory reindeer.

The Hamburgian tradition displays little of the artistic engraving displayed in the assemblages of the French and Spanish Magdalenian cultures.