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A unique raw material from Early Upper Palaeolithic layers in the Pod hradem Cave (Moravian Karst, Czech Republic) - interpretative problems

Authors

NERUDOVÁ Zdeňka NERUDA Petr PŘICHYSTAL Antonín

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Anthropologie
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Field Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Keywords Pod hradem Cave; Moravian Karst; Czech Republic; Raw material distribution
Description Archaeological research of the cave has yielded a small but interesting collection of lithic chipped artefacts, which fall within the period from the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition to the Gravettian. Petrographic analyses proved that finds from stratigraphically separated horizons were made of the same kind of porcellanite coming from the Kunětická hora Hill near Pardubice, eastern Bohemia.

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