Publication details
Last Glacial Maximum landscape and Epigravettian horse hunting strategy in Central Europe: The case of Stránská skála IV
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehled výzkumů |
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| web | http://pv.arub.avcr.cz/61_1_06.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.47382/pv0611-06 |
| Keywords | Last Glacial Maximum; Epigravettian; Moravia; horse hunting strategy |
| Description | With the end of MIS3, the unity of large Gravettian/Pavlovian settlements based predominantly on mammoth exploitation splitted into a mosaic of smaller Epigravettian sites with specific behaviors and economies. Site of Stránská skála IV, basing on C14 chronology (and together with Grubgraben, Ságvár and Kašov), correlates with a brief warm period after the LGM around 22 ka BP, referred to as GI-2. We detected two main accumulations of predominantly horse bones under a rock cliff suggesting that the site was not a regular settlement but rather a specialised hunting site. Typically, no features nor hearths were recovered, lithic raw materials were partly imported from long distances, and the horse hunting strategy profitted from the specific geomorphological qualitites of the site. |