Les débuts du Paléolithique supérieur dans l’Est des Balkans: Réflexion à partir de l’étude taphonomique et techno-économique des ensembles lithiques des sites de Bacho Kiro (couche 11), Temnata (couches VI et 4) et Kozarnika (niveau VII)

Tsanova, Tsenka

doi:10.30861/9781407301914

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“…Support for such a chronology may be drawn from Kozarnika Cave, in north-west Bulgaria. Here, the few leaf-points encountered in level VII, itself of early Upper Palaeolithic character and dated to c .39.3–36.2 ka 14 C BP, are suspected to derive from the underlying Mousterian levels (lithostratigraphic unit 9), dated to a time before c .43.6–42.7 ka 14 C BP (Tsanova 2008, 166, 167, 172). Whichever is the case, such dates are sufficiently close to the estimated age of the Muselievo leaf-point workshop.…”

Section: Leaf-points In Europe and Their Distribution Temporal And Gmentioning

confidence: 92%

Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Fotiadis

2016

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The Petrota chert source, in Greek Thrace, was exploited in the Middle Palaeolithic and again in the Neolithic and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. An extensive scatter of products of that exploitation today surrounds the source. The site was systematically surveyed between 1998 and 2010. The present paper is devoted exclusively to the issue of the chronology of the Middle Palaeolithic component. The best, though still imperfect, indicator of chronology is the presence in the scatter of bifacially flaked leaf-points. A review of the literature on the chronostratigraphy of such artefacts in Europe, from Thuringia to Crimea, shows that they had a long career. They first appeared about 200,000 years ago and were still manufactured about 45,000 years ago. On the basis of various considerations, it is suggested that the leaf-points of Petrota and, accordingly, the Palaeolithic component at the site, belong to an advanced stage of that long period, probably dating between roughly 100,000 and 45/40,000 years ago.

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Section: Leaf-points In Europe and Their Distribution Temporal And Gmentioning

confidence: 92%

Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Fotiadis

2016

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…Three different Aurignacian industries are now recognised in Europe (Bon 2002(Bon , 2006Le Brun-Ricalens 2005;Teyssandier 2008). The Protoaurignacian (Aurignacian 0), originally defined by Laplace (1966), is relatively common in the Mediterranean region (Bazile & Sicard 1999) but has also been documented in Western and Central Europe (Bon 2002(Bon , 2006Bordes 2006;Tsanova 2006). It has affinities with the early Near Eastern Ahmarian (Mellars 2006;Zilhão 2006;Teyssandier 2007).…”

Section: Current Status Of the Aurignacianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Franchthi Cave revisited: the age of the Aurignacian in south-eastern Europe

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The Aurignacian, traditionally regarded as marking the beginnings of Sapiens in Europe, is notoriously hard to date, being almost out of reach of radiocarbon. Here the authors return to the stratified sequence in the Franchthi Cave, chronicle its lithic and shell ornament industries and, by dating humanly-modified material, show that Franchthi was occupied either side of the Campagnian Ignimbrite super-eruption around 40 000 years ago. Along with other results, this means that groups of Early Upper Palaeolithic people were active outside the Danube corridor and Western Europe, and probably in contact with each other over long distances.

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“…The situation at Temnata Dupka locality I layer 4 is more satisfactory, both as regards the stratigraphy and the nature of the industry. There are three subdivisions (phases A–C) of layer 4, but Tsanova gives good reasons for thinking that there are no great differences between them (Tsanova 2008, 158–9). There are more than 10,000 artefacts all told, with indications that all stages of manufacture were carried out on the spot.…”

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“…2015, table 8a). With these results may be compared those now available from the cave of Kozarnika in north-west Bulgaria, where an industry defined as equivalent to the Proto-Aurignacian in layer VII has produced four radiocarbon dates in the range from 39,310 to 36,200 BP , equivalent to a calibrated range of 43,400–41,300 cal BP (Tsanova 2008; Hublin 2015). Further results can be expected soon to add to this picture (Hopkins et al .…”

Section: Introduction: From Middle To Upper Palaeolithicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If these advantages are lacking, it can be quite difficult to determine what exactly is a ‘transitional’ industry. Such an industry was claimed to exist in locality II layer VI at Temnata Dupka in northern Bulgaria, but Tsanova’s careful re-analysis shows that colluvial processes operating on the slope at this point are highly likely to have conflated two separate assemblages (Tsanova 2008, fig. II.15).…”

Section: Introduction: From Middle To Upper Palaeolithicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova

Allsworth-Jones

Borziac

Chetraru

et al. 2018

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Brînzeni cave occupies an important place in the Palaeolithic of Moldova. Its significance is reconsidered in the light of work carried out at the site in 1992–1993 and subsequently, and the opportunity is taken to bring together both published and previously unpublished reports about it, to shed light on its environmental history and archaeological characterisation. On current evidence, the principal occupation layer occupies a chronologically intermediate position between the Aurignacian and the Gravettian in the region, and the archaeological assemblage is certainly distinctive, although probably not ‘transitional’ in the sense previously claimed.

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Les débuts du Paléolithique supérieur dans l’Est des Balkans: Réflexion à partir de l’étude taphonomique et techno-économique des ensembles lithiques des sites de Bacho Kiro (couche 11), Temnata (couches VI et 4) et Kozarnika (niveau VII)

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Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Franchthi Cave revisited: the age of the Aurignacian in south-eastern Europe

Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova

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