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Sídelní archeologie loveckých populací. K dynamice a populační kinetice mladého paleolitu ve středním Podunají.
| Title in English | Settlement archaeology of hunting populations. Upper Paleolithic dynamics and population kinetics in the Middle Danube basin |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehledy výzkumů |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Danubian region, central Europe, Neandertals, Modern Humans, Settlement archaeology, Population kinetics, Demography. |
| Description | Mapping site distributions and archaeological entities across past landscapes represents rather a static type of analysis. However the interpretation of the recorded patterns, be it on levels of a dwelling, a site, and a territory, if placed into chronological relationships, is a highly dynamic process of investigation. A complex approach to the behaviors of mobile hunters-gatherers populations in space should not be limited by the paradigmas of diffusionism nor of complex cultural development at place, but should combine both. Whereas the modern human immigration into Danubian Europe, basing on current genetic and anthropological evidence, is taken more-or-less as a historical fact, its reflection in the archaeological record poses difficulties of readability and interpretation. Even if we accept the African origin of anatomically modern humans, Danubian Europe played not only a passive role of recipient of the invading populations, but functioned also as a cradle of new behavioral patterns, technologies, and symbolism. In this sense, this paper discusses several possible stages of the immigration process during the Interpleniglacial (Levallois-leptolithic, Aurignacian, Gravettian), as well as later human adaptations to drammatic changes of European climate during and after the Last Glacial Maximum (Kašovian, Magdalenian). |