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- Title
Pozdněglaciální osídlení u Stadic v severozápadních Čechách.
- Authors
Oliva, Martin; Vencl, Slavomil
- Abstract
During the rescue excavation conducted by Slavomil Vencl near Stadice in 1987, an almost entire camp dated to the Epigravettian period (GrN-15862: 14280 ± 120 BP) was uncovered over an area of 164 m2. Unlike the Gravettian (Pavlovian), retouched tools are far less formalised. Also unusual is the disproportionate predominance of burins over endscrapers, which are practically absent, but there are also relatively few backed points and bladelets. Most of the industry (97%) is made of northern cretaceous flint brought from glacifluvial sediments in Germany (min. 30 km), while marlite, xylolite, chert, and others also occur. The fauna, only partially preserved, consisted exclusively of cold-steppe species, with a predominance of woolly mammoths. The most interesting structures are pits with chipped industry or bones. In one pit, these two components occurred together, in another - on the edge of an assumed dwelling - a deposit of ochre was placed together with the bones. Hoards of chipped industry deposited in several completely inconspicuous places do not contain any promising cores, exploitable blanks or elaborately produced tools; in contrast, they contained many reduced core remnants, fragments and debitage. The main objective of the article is therefore to consider whether these deposits and the pits with bones could have served as ready reserves of raw material, possibly meat, or whether they were instead a deposition of commodities with a certain symbolic value.
- Publication
Památky Archeologické, 2021, Vol 112, p5
- ISSN
0031-0506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35686/PA2021.1