Looking for the Palaeolithic in Central Europe: Research, Impact, and Geopolitics

Romanowska, Iza

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“…Paleolithic research in the Carpathian Basin has a long history that in its early phase (c. 1900) was part of a larger pan-European interest in the antiquity of humans (Romanowska 2016). Early scholars focused their efforts primarily on cave sites (e.g.…”

Section: The Early Upper Paleolithic Of the Carpathian Basin: Currentsupporting

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The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

Chu

2018

J World Prehist

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Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin's geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin's archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo) archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.

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Section: The Early Upper Paleolithic Of the Carpathian Basin: Currentsupporting

confidence: 40%

The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

Chu

2018

J World Prehist

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Looking for the Palaeolithic in Central Europe: Research, Impact, and Geopolitics

Cited by 1 publication

References 43 publications

The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

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