Publication details

Pavlov VI: an Upper Palaeolithic living unit

Authors

SVOBODA Jiří KRÁLÍK Miroslav ČULÍKOVÁ Věra HLADILOVÁ Šárka NOVÁK Martin NÝVLTOVÁ-FIŠÁKOVÁ Miriam NÝVLT Daniel RAŠKOVÁ ZELINKOVÁ Michaela

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Antiquity
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/pavlov-vi-an-upper-palaeolithic-living-unit/6CE66523230399B6819C635C7581D7E6
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00098434
Field Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Keywords Czech Republic; Danube; Upper Palaeolithic; Gravettian; settlement; mammoth; baked clay models
Description This newly discovered and excavated site defines an Upper Palaeolithic activity unit consisting of a roasting pit at the centre of an area 5m across. Although the main task was the processing of two mammoths, there were numerous other wild animals in the assemblage. The occupants used flint knives, made bone tools and modelled in baked clay on which they left their fingerprints, along with imprints of reindeer hair and textiles. Pavlov VI offers an exemplary picture of the basic living unit that made up the settlement clusters of the Gravettian people in Central Europe.
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