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Seeing mammoths and using mammoths: Evidence from Upper Paleolithic Moravia.

SVOBODA, Jiří

Basic information

Original name

Seeing mammoths and using mammoths: Evidence from Upper Paleolithic Moravia.

Name in Czech

Vidět mamuty a užívat mamuty: Doklady z mladopaleolitické Moravy.

Authors

SVOBODA, Jiří

Edition

USA, Proceedings of the International conference on mammoth site studies. p. 153-161, 9 pp. 2001

Publisher

University of Kansas

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

0-938332-22-8

Keywords in English

Mammoths; Gravettian; Moravia

Tags

Změněno: 15/12/2008 13:15, prof. PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, DrSc.

Abstract

V originále

The complexity of archaeological record from the Moravian corridor between 30,000 and 20,000 B.P. suggests a central role of this territory in frame of European hunter-gatherer's adaptations. However, the nature of this adaptation, and, especially, of the man and mammoth relationships, is not clear in the moment. This paper focuses in more detail on the mammoth images, which, together with the large carnivores, represent one of the favorite zoomorph subjects in the Gravettian art of Moravia. Due to the characteristic outline of the mammoth stature, this subject was represented in a uniform way, it became easily standardized, and also reduced. Using indirect arguments derived from settlement archaeology and comparative faunal analyses, this paper tries to place the mammoth images into a broader context of the most probable man and mammoth relationships of their time.