Magdalenian settlement on the edge of the loess island: A case study from the northern foreland of the Carpathians (SE Poland)

Bobak, Dariusz; Łanczont, Maria; Mroczek, Przemysław; Połtowicz-Bobak, Marta; Nowak, Adam; Kufel-Diakowska, Bernadeta; Kusiak, Jarosław; Standzikowski, Karol

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.04.034

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“…Six of them were located within a radius of up to 25 km around the outcrop, the other four at a distance of up to 100 km, and three at a distance exceeding 100 km. The sites vary in size, function, settlement duration and chronology (Połtowicz-Bobak 2013;Bobak et al 2017). Single specimens of Świeciechów flint have also been recorded at remote sites in the Pekárna Cave in Moravia, Czech Republic (ca.…”

Section: The Use Of Turonian Flint By the Magdalenian Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their inventories are characterised by a significant share of Turonian flints, next to the chocolate flint and erratic Cretaceous flint. Artefacts made of ETF include cores, debitage and tools (Bobak et al 2010;Bobak et al 2017;Bobak and Połtowicz-Bobak 2014).…”

Section: The Use Of Turonian Flint By the Magdalenian Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Radiometric data are available for five sites: Wilczyce (Schild 2014), Klementowice (Wiśniewski 2015) and Hłomcza (Łanczont et al 2002), which are connected with the cold oscillation of the Oldest Dryas (GS-2a), as well as Wierzawice and Mosty, dated to the Allerød interstadial age (GI-1d-c) and representing the latest stage of Magdalenian settlement in the Polish lands (Bobak et al 2013;Bobak et al 2017). Results of absolute dating conducted for Stare Baraki provided a wide chronological range and suggest the later phase of the Magdalenian in the Polish lands (Bølling-Allerød interstadial?…”

Section: Turonian Flint In Easternmost Magdalenianmentioning

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“…The first Magdalenian settlement in Poland was connected with middle Magdalenian phase, best recorded in Maszycka Cave (18.5-17.5 ky BP) (Kozłowski et al 2012). The major development and expansion of the easternmost Magdalenian coincided with late Magdalenian phase, around 16.5-13.1 ky BP (Bobak and Połtowicz-Bobak 2014;Bobak et al 2017). Generally, dates obtained for Magdalenian sites in south-eastern Poland indicate a range between the Greenland Stadial 2 (GS-2a according to stratigraphic subdivision by Rasmussen et al 2014, or Oldest Dryas) and the Greenland Interstadial 1d or Allerød).…”

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“…It is considered that the late phase of classic Magdalenian could have survived in Polish lands even until the Allerød (GI-1c-b) (Połtowicz-Bobak 2016). For example, at Wierzawice site, radiocarbon dates clearly point to the Allerød (GI-1c) but the assemblage bears all the classical features of a Magdalenian inventory (Bobak et al 2017).…”

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Turonian flint economy in the easternmost Magdalenian: new data from Stare Baraki, site 1 (eastern Poland)

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Magdalenian communities exploited mostly local and regional good-quality lithic raw materials. In south-eastern Poland, being the easternmost fringe of the Magdalenian range, Turonian grey flint had a particular importance. Outcrops of this raw material occur both at the west and at the east sides the Vistula River Gorge. The varieties from the eastern area (called here “eastern Turonian flint” or ETF) are common among inventories of the Magdalenian sites situated to west of the Vistula river. This fact points toward the frequent penetration of the ETF outcrop area by those societies. However, no Magdalenian sites were known directly from the ETF deposit area, and this gap in knowledge restricted further understanding of the character and diversity of Magdalenian activity there. Therefore, in this paper, we present the results of searching for Magdalenian sites within the ETF outcrop zone. Applied methodology included study of the archive archaeological materials, followed by detail survey and excavation of the selected site—Stare Baraki 1. This site documents a short stay or multiple stays of Magdalenian people, who were focused on Turonian flint knapping. Lithic inventory records collecting of several local flint varieties at the distance up to around 20 km from the site, followed by almost all stages of flint working. The material from Stare Baraki is the first known and currently the only trace of the Magdalenian people inside the zone of Turonian flint deposits on the right bank of the Vistula river. The study in Stare Baraki delivered new data for the reconstruction of territory exploitation strategies used in the easternmost Magdalenian.

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Section: The Use Of Turonian Flint By the Magdalenian Communitiesmentioning

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Section: The Use Of Turonian Flint By the Magdalenian Communitiesmentioning

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State‐of‐the‐art overview of the Loess Palaeolithic of Poland

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2021

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In Poland, loess mainly occurs in the southern part of the country, in the Polish Uplands, and on the northern foreland of the Sudetes and the Carpathians. Most of these sediments come from the time of the last glaciation-the Vistulian (Weichselian) glaciation. Thin covers of loess from the penultimate glaciation have been preserved in Upper Silesia. Only a few sites from the Middle Palaeolithic remain in the loess. In the eastern part of Poland loess creates profiles several metres high. Discoveries in this zone represent the cultural sequence from the transition from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic. We know more traces of various cultures from the Upper Palaeolithic exist. The study attempts to synchronise profiles from selected archaeological open-air sites, outlines of the history of research on loess sites, and attempts to explain terminological and conceptual issues. The issue of loess in the cave site profiles will not be discussed in the article.

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Reading the Mobility of Late Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers. Case Study from the Sowin Site Complex in Relation to Late Palaeolithic Sites North of the Sudetes and Carpathians

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Magdalenian settlement on the edge of the loess island: A case study from the northern foreland of the Carpathians (SE Poland)

Cited by 10 publications

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Turonian flint economy in the easternmost Magdalenian: new data from Stare Baraki, site 1 (eastern Poland)

Turonian flint economy in the easternmost Magdalenian: new data from Stare Baraki, site 1 (eastern Poland)

State‐of‐the‐art overview of the Loess Palaeolithic of Poland

Reading the Mobility of Late Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers. Case Study from the Sowin Site Complex in Relation to Late Palaeolithic Sites North of the Sudetes and Carpathians

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