Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment,
and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia

J 2015

Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia

SVOBODA, Jiří, Šárka HLADILOVÁ, Ivan HORÁČEK, Jozef KAISER, Miroslav KRÁLÍK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia

Authors

SVOBODA, Jiří (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Šárka HLADILOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ivan HORÁČEK (203 Czech Republic), Jozef KAISER (203 Czech Republic), Miroslav KRÁLÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic), Martin NOVÁK (703 Slovakia), Petr POKORNÝ (203 Czech Republic), Sandra SÁZELOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Libuše SMOLÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Tomáš ZIKMUND (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Quaternary International, 2015, 1040-6182

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.067

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00082059

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.048

UT WoS

000350997500017

Keywords in English

Dolní Věstonice; Early Gravettian; Microstratigraphy; Environment; Burnt clay; Czech Republic

Abstract

V originále

Creating an overall scheme of Gravettian stratigraphy and chronology in the Middle Danube area is a matter of current debate. This paper addresses the formation of microstratigraphies at large open-air sites, evidence of the earliest Gravettian occupation in the Dolní Vestonice-Pavlov area, and occurrence of early ceramics from this context. The case presented here is a complex early Gravettian microstratigraphy of charcoal deposits at Dolní Vestonice IIa with a sequence of AMS dates between 28.4 and 31.7 ka uncal BP (30-33 ka cal BC) and two middle Gravettian (Pavlovian) dates from the nearby living floor. The associated environmental evidence of charcoal, pollen, molluscs, and vertebrates shows that climatic development through the six horizons was relatively stable, but with a certain variability in moisture and extension of forest. In horizon 3c, the molluscs and both small and large vertebrates indicate an episode of restricted forest formation around 28.4 ka uncal BP (30-31 ka cal BC). Baked clay (ceramic) fragments from horizon 3c represent the earliest dated items of this kind in the Gravettian. Microstratigraphies of this type demonstrate the complexity of cultural deposits at the large Gravettian sites and throw light on the hitherto poorly understood time-period of the early Gravettian in Moravia.

Links

ED1.1.00/02.0068, research and development project

Name: CEITEC - central european institute of technology

EE2.3.20.0181, research and development project

Name: Formování mezinárodního týmu pro výzkum evoluční antropologie moravských populací

Citovat

SVOBODA, Jiří, Šárka HLADILOVÁ, Ivan HORÁČEK, Jozef KAISER, Miroslav KRÁLÍK, Jan NOVÁK, Martin NOVÁK, Petr POKORNÝ, Sandra SÁZELOVÁ, Libuše SMOLÍKOVÁ and Tomáš ZIKMUND. Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia. Quaternary International. 2015, vol. 359, MARCH, p. 195-210. ISSN 1040-6182. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.048.

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N2  - Creating an overall scheme of Gravettian stratigraphy and chronology in the Middle Danube area is a matter of current debate. This paper addresses the formation of microstratigraphies at large open-air sites, evidence of the earliest Gravettian occupation in the Dolní Vestonice-Pavlov area, and occurrence of early ceramics from this context. The case presented here is a complex early Gravettian microstratigraphy of charcoal deposits at Dolní Vestonice IIa with a sequence of AMS dates between 28.4 and 31.7 ka uncal BP (30-33 ka cal BC) and two middle Gravettian (Pavlovian) dates from the nearby living floor. The associated environmental evidence of charcoal, pollen, molluscs, and vertebrates shows that climatic development through the six horizons was relatively stable, but with a certain variability in moisture and extension of forest. In horizon 3c, the molluscs and both small and large vertebrates indicate an episode of restricted forest formation around 28.4 ka uncal BP (30-31 ka cal BC). Baked clay (ceramic) fragments from horizon 3c represent the earliest dated items of this kind in the Gravettian. Microstratigraphies of this type demonstrate the complexity of cultural deposits at the large Gravettian sites and throw light on the hitherto poorly understood time-period of the early Gravettian in Moravia.
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SVOBODA, Jiří, Šárka HLADILOVÁ, Ivan HORÁČEK, Jozef KAISER, Miroslav KRÁLÍK, Jan NOVÁK, Martin NOVÁK, Petr POKORNÝ, Sandra SÁZELOVÁ, Libuše SMOLÍKOVÁ and Tomáš ZIKMUND. Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia. \textit{Quaternary International}. 2015, vol.~359, MARCH, p.~195-210. ISSN~1040-6182. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.048.

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