Publication details
Koněpruské jeskyně. Nálezová situace lidského skeletu a první radiokarbonové datování.
| Title in English | The Koněprusy Caves. Depositional context of the human skeleton find and first radiocarbon dating. |
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The Koněprusy caves in the Bohemian Karst represent a case of otherwise uninhabited underground system, where Upper Paleolithic human fossils were found in 1951 in a redeposited position, in the upper part or on the surface of a debris cone under vertical chimneys. Due to this situation, and with respect to the general archaeological and paleontological context, Koněprusy were often compared to the site of Mladeč, Moravia, and the both depositions were intuitively dated to the Early Upper Paleolithic. Recent 14C datings, however, confirmed an Aurignacian age for Mladeč only, whereas the date for Koněprusy suggets rather a Magdalenian age. New series of samples is actually being prepared in order to confirm this first dating. Finally, this paper discusses the term "funeral caves", used for human skeletal deposits in otherwise unsettled or rarely frequented underground cavities. |