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Pavlov VI: an Upper Palaeolithic living unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jiří Svoboda ,
Miroslav Králík ,
Věra Čulíková ,
Šárka Hladilová ,
Martin Novák ,
Miriam Nývltová Fišáková ,
Daniel Nývlt  and
Michaela Zelinková
Jiří Svoboda
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology at Brno, Paleolithic and Paleoethnology Research Center, 69129 Dolní Véstonice, Czech Republic Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic
Miroslav Králík
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic
Věra Čulíková
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology at Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Opava branch, Czech Republic
Šárka Hladilová
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Novák
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology at Brno, Paleolithic and Paleoethnology Research Center, 69129 Dolní Véstonice, Czech Republic
Miriam Nývltová Fišáková
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology at Brno, Paleolithic and Paleoethnology Research Center, 69129 Dolní Véstonice, Czech Republic
Daniel Nývlt
Affiliation:
Czech Geological Survey, Leitnerova 22, 658 69 Brno, Czech Republic
Michaela Zelinková
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic
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Abstract

This newly discovered and excavated site defines an Upper Palaeolithic activity unit consisting of a roasting pit at the centre of an area 5m across. Although the main task was the processing of two mammoths, there were numerous other wild animals in the assemblage. The occupants used flint knives, made bone tools and modelled in baked clay – on which they left their fingerprints, along with imprints of reindeer hair and textiles. Pavlov VI offers an exemplary picture of the basic living unit that made up the settlement clusters of the Gravettian people in Central Europe.

Keywords

Czech RepublicDanubeUpper PalaeolithicGravettiansettlementmammothbaked clay models
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 320 , June 2009 , pp. 282 - 295
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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