Publication details
Dvě koncentrace epigravettských artefaktů v Mohelně-Plevovcích
| Title in English | Two Epigravettian artifact clusters in Mohelno-Plevovce |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehled výzkumů |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.academia.edu/16563427/Two_Epigravettian_artifact_clusters_in_Mohelno-Plevovce_Dv%C4%9B_koncentrace_epigravettsk%C3%BDch_artefakt%C5%AF_v_Moheln%C4%9B-Plevovc%C3%ADch |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Moravia; Mohelno; Late Upper Paleolithic; Epigravettian |
| Description | The site of Mohelno-Plevovce is situated below the water line of the Mohelno water reservoir (lower part of the Dalešice pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant). The site was repeatedly occupied during the Late Upper Paleolithic. We discovered three areas with in-situ artifacts within intact sediments. While two assemblages excavated so far in Artifact Cluster 3 are characterized by microlithic tools made on carenoidal blanks and utilization of local rocks, both assemblages in Artifact Clusters 1 and 2 differ significantly from Artifact Cluster 3 and represent different techno-complexes. Artifact Clusters 1 and 2 are characterized by prevailing erratic flint supplemented by several artifacts made on radiolarite and obsidian. Technology is characterized by long, narrow and straight blades and bladelets removed from bidirectional cores. The collection of tools is characterized by prevailing backed microblades, in several cases with a straight truncation. In one case the truncations form a rectangle. This techno-complex continuing the Gravettian technological tradition is similar to material from Brno-Štýřice that is currently dated to the large time span covering two millennia between 17 100 and 19 100 calBP. |
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