The Upper and Final Gravettian in Western Slovakia and Moravia. Different approaches, new questions

Polanská, Michaela; Hromadová, Bibiána; Sázelová, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.004

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“…This knowledge is often limited to the types that are classified according to the Sonneville-Bordes type list and, at best, to tables of drawings (e.g., Klíma, 1997;Hromada and Kozlowski, 1995). Discussion of types of Central Europe industries and attempts to define and describe the production systems are rare (e.g., Oliva, 2009a;Polanská et al, in presse;Polanská and Hromadová, 2015;Vlačiky et al, 2013;Wilczyński et al, 2015). Hence, the detailed description and characterization of the types from this geographical area are important.…”

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Gravettian backed points from Unit K11 of Dolní Věstonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

Polanská

2021

Quaternary International

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Gravettian backed points from Unit K11 of Dolní Věstonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

Polanská

2021

Quaternary International

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“…Straus (2015Straus ( , 2016 argues that this split strategy would have provided foragers with two contrasting weapon types -a deadly but fragile large point projectile, and a more easily repaired composite projectile. Gravettian foragers just prior to the LGM used backed bladelets alongside a regionally variable collection of points and knives as their climate cooled (Polanská et al, 2021).…”

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The Last Glacial Maximum and acceleration of technological change in the Lesotho highlands

Pazan

2022

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…The Solutrean technocomplex of southwest Europe (~25 ka) blended macrolithic, bifacially aked points with microliths and bladelets (Straus, 2015(Straus, , 2016. Late Gravettian foragers used backed bladelets alongside regionally diverse points and knives (Polanská et al, 2021;Tomasso et al, 2018). Siberian and Japanese microblade assemblages also incorporated a range of larger burins, endscrapers, and blades (Doelman, 2008;Goebel, 2002;Iwase, 2016;Otsuka, 2017).…”

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Early LGM Environments Accelerated the MSA/LSA Transition in Southern African Highlands: the Robberg’s Emergence at Melikane (Lesotho)

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Stewart,

Dewar

2023

J Paleo Arch

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Melikane, a large sandstone rockshelter in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of highland Lesotho, preserves an 80,000 year-old archaeological sequence including two layers (4 & 5) dated to the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ~ 24 kcal BP. Paleoenvironmental proxies indicate that these layers were associated with increasing aridi cation and changes in resource distribution. An analysis of > 17,000 lithic artifacts combining attribute and morphometric approaches reveals that these environmental changes occurred alongside the adoption of Later Stone Age (LSA) Robberg bladelet technology at the site (Layer 4), which developed out of an early microlithic industry we classify as "incipient Robberg" (Layer 5). We argue that the accelerated implementation and standardization of bladelet technology in Layer 4 was the consequence of modifying and expanding existing technologies to function in a high-stakes LGM environment. While intrasite continuities and gradual changes in aking systems at Melikane are inconsistent with the Robberg's arrival via population replacement or migration (cf. Bousman and Brink, 2018), shared aking systems with penecontemporary sites also implicate a role for cultural transmission in the Robberg's development and demand an alternate explanation for its use in nonmarginal environments.We attribute its adoption in southern Africa more broadly to the extraordinary exibility of bladelet technology and an ongoing cycle of connectivity and isolation throughout the LGM, encouraging the development of new aking systems and their subsequent coalescence and diffusion. population incursions from further north. Sampson (1974) modi ed this idea, asserting that microlithic industries had origins in southern Zambia and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). J.D. Clark (1959) andHumphreys (1972) were among others advocating for migration theories. Models incorporating climate became more popular in the second half of the twentieth century: J. D. Clark (1974) and Phillipson (1976Phillipson ( , 1977 suggested that microlithic technology evolved independently in many areas, taking forms most advantageous to the local environment. H.J. Deacon (1976) proposed that microlithic techniques arrived though diffusion and were then modi ed to suit environmental conditions. Mitchell's (1988) hypothesis, speci c to the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains of highland Lesotho, implicated the LGM as an impetus for microlithization, positing that microlithic technologies were adaptive in "time-stressed" environments (Torrence, 1983). By the end of the twentieth century, "gradualist" theories rejected a sudden population replacement or migration entirely. Built on sites with long occupation histories like Sehonghong, Umhlatuzana, and Rose Cottage Cave, these hypotheses recognized intrasite continuities and subtle temporal trends (A.

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The Upper and Final Gravettian in Western Slovakia and Moravia. Different approaches, new questions

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Gravettian backed points from Unit K11 of Dolní Věstonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

Gravettian backed points from Unit K11 of Dolní Věstonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

The Last Glacial Maximum and acceleration of technological change in the Lesotho highlands

Early LGM Environments Accelerated the MSA/LSA Transition in Southern African Highlands: the Robberg’s Emergence at Melikane (Lesotho)

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