Rapid climate change in the Upper Palaeolithic: the record of charcoal conifer rings from the Gravettian site of Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic

• Authors: BERESFORD-JONES David; TAYLOR Sean; PAINE Clea; PRYOR Alexander; SVOBODA Jiří; JONES Martin
• Year of publication: 2011
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Quaternary Science Reviews
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.021
• Field: Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
• Keywords: Upper-Palaeolithic; Gravettian; Charcoal; Tree rings; Climate change; Micromorphology; Archaeobotany
• Description: We apply the methodology of large-scale flotation to newly excavated contexts from Upper Paleolithic site of Dolní Věstonice II, Czech Republic. The results of an analysis of tree ring widths indicate that this charcoal may capture a higher-resolution record of the changing climatic conditions.