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1. A 15,000-year history of Early Upper Paleolithic hunters moving through the Pustý Žleb valley - Artefacts and chronology of Pod Hradem Cave, Moravian Karst, Czech Republic

Creator:
Nejman, Ladislav, Škrdla, Petr, Wright, Duncan, Bartík, Jaroslav, and Přichystal, Antonín
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Subject:
Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition, chronostratigraphy, stone artefacts, and EUP cultures
Language:
Czech
Description:
Archaeological evidence shows that Paleolithic hunters occasionally used the difficult-to-access Pod Hradem Cave for short-term visits. The small collection of artefacts spanning a c. 15,000-year period were made from a range of different raw materials collected from known sources in the surrounding regions up to 120 km away. In this paper, we interpret the sum of the archaeological evidence associated with artefacts from Pod Hradem Cave against an updated chronology, and report a previously unpublished stone artefact. Combined, this information suggests variable cave use throughout the site history. During the Early-Upper Paleolithic this likely involved visits by small, mobile bands using Pod Hradem Cave as a short stop over while passing through the Pustý Žleb valley.
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2. Dolní Věstonice. I. Excavations

Creator:
Svoboda, Jiří, Novák, Martin, Sandra Sázelová, Šárka Hladilová, and Petr Škrdla
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Subject:
chronostratigrafie, archeologické výzkumy, gravettien, chronostratigraphy, excavations (archaeology), gravettian culture, Dolní Věstonice (Česko), Dolní Věstonice (Czechia), microstratigraphy, settlement structure, 8, and 902
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Czech
Description:
Large-scale excavations of complete Gravettian living-floors at Dolní Věstonice I were primarily realised between 1924-1952 whereas later fieldwork had rather a character of separate trenches. Here we report the results of last excavation organized at this site in 1990 and 1993. A series of trenches along the western and southern boundary brought additional chronostratigraphic and archaeological evidence concerning the overall situation of the site. In the lower part of the site we detected superimposed charcoal deposits dated by C14 to Early Gravettian but without artefactual context. In the uppermost part we identified the previously excavated units K2 and K3 and we show that these were discrete instalations dated to the Evolved Gravettian (Pavlovian). With the newly acquired data, this paper addresses the questions of general stratigraphy and local microstratigraphies, radiometric chronology, center-periphery relationships (on levels of the whole site and of the individual residential units), and structure of relevant faunal and lithic assemblages., Jiří Svoboda, Martin Novák, Sandra Sázelová, Šárka Hladilová, Petr Škrdla., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
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