Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

Harvati, Katerina; Roksandić, Mirjana

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“…This is in contrast to the Middle Palaeolithic faunas at Kalamakia, 20 km to the southwest. Though fallow deer is the dominant taxon at Kalamakia, the site also preserves a diverse array of large and small carnivores, a range of ungulates, and a particularly large number of tortoise bones (Darlas and Psathi 2016). Fig.…”

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Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

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Lakonis I (ca. 100,000-40,000 BP) is a collapsed Middle Palaeolithic cave on the coast of the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. The site contains three distinctive components: a hearth context, upper bone breccia, and lower bone breccia. The bone breccias contain concreted deposits and large numbers of lithic and faunal materials, though the upper bone breccia preserves more evidence of dumping from hearth features. The hearth context is comprised of hearth lenses interspersed with mixed ashy sediments, which we interpret as the remnants of raked out and trampled combustion features. Bones and lithics in the hearth context have higher rates of burning, and the lithics are smaller and more broken. The large numbers of burned bones are probably not the result of accidental burning or the use of bone as a fuel source, rather they seem to relate to site maintenance. The incorporation of multiple lines of evidence points to two different site maintenance strategies at Lakonis: (1) the intentional burning of food refuse and (2) the cleaning of hearths, and dumping remnant deposits elsewhere at the site. We therefore consider Lakonis I to be amongst the growing list of sites that contain evidence for Neandertal behavioral complexity.

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Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

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Inner ear morphology of the cioclovina early modern European calvaria from Romania

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Reyes-Centeno

Grigorescu

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American J Phys Anthropol

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What is a refugium? Questions for the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in peninsular southern Europe

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2021

J Quaternary Science

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The word ‘refugium’ is often used to describe patterns of human settlement during various parts of the Palaeolithic. While, classically, a refugium is a location which supports an isolated population of a once more widespread species, some have argued that discrepancies in how this term is used have led to methodological confusion and a weakening of its meaning. Differences in the spatial and temporal scales of how refugia are defined, as well as in the specifics of how they operate, mean that many so‐called refugia serve different biological functions and have different implications for long‐term species survival (Ashcroft, 2010). In this article, I review four questions that may shape individual refugia. I then use the late Middle Palaeolithic record of peninsular southern Europe to explore how attention to these questions may help to advance Middle–Upper Palaeolithic research.

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Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

Inner ear morphology of the cioclovina early modern European calvaria from Romania

What is a refugium? Questions for the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in peninsular southern Europe

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