The Szeletian and the Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe. P. Allsworth Jones. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986. xviii + 412 pp., plates, tables, figures, charts, maps, bibliography, index. $105.00 (cloth).

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludomir R. Lozny
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic

scholarly journals On Making of Micoquian Bifacial Backed Tools at Pietraszyn 49a, SW Poland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wiśniewski ◽  
Marcin Chłoń ◽  
Marcel Weiss ◽  
Katarzyna Pyżewicz ◽  
Witold Migal
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Marine Isotope Stage 3 ◽  
Early Upper

Abstract This paper attempts to show that manufacture of Micoquian bifacial backed tools was structured. Data for this study were collected using a comprehensive analysis of artefacts from the site Pietraszyn 49a, Poland, which is dated to the beginning of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Based on the whole data set, it was possible to distinguish four stages of the manufacturing process. During manufacturing, both mineral hammer and organic hammer were used. The tools were usually shaped due to distinct hierarchization of faces. The study has also shown that the shape of bifacial tools from Pietraszyn 49a is very similar to the other Micoquian examples from central Europe. The ways of shaping of some tools are finding their counterparts also in the Early Upper Palaeolithic inventories, but the similarities are rather limited to the narrow range of preparation of bifacial form.

scholarly journals The problems of the Szeletian as seen from Hungary

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 19-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsolt Mester
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Research History ◽  
Points Of View

The Szeletian is widely accepted as one of the cultural units typical of the transition from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe and associated with Neanderthals. Its eponymous site is Szeleta Cave in northeastern Hungary, excavated mainly from 1906 to 1913 by O. Kadić. Although the Szeletian has altogether more than one hundred years of research history, this cultural unit is far from being clearly defined. This paper gives an overview of the related problems from typological, technological, chronological and archaeological points of view, with a special focus on those concerning the open-air and cave sites of Hungary.

Report on the First Season's Fieldwork on British Upper Palaeolithic Cave Deposits

1959 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 260-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. M. McBurney
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Cave Deposits ◽  
Environmental Background ◽  
The University

During the Easter and Summer of 1958 a programme of investigations into British Upper Palaeolithic cave deposits was initiated on behalf of the Prehistoric Society, with the aid of a grant from the Research Fund. The work was further supported by the Crowther Beynon Fund of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Cambridge. Labour in the field was provided by students in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University, with notable assistance from several members of the Society in different areas.The prime objectives of the work, which is still in progress, are to define more precisely the character of the different stages in the British Upper Palaeolithic, and to study them against their chronological and environmental background. In this way it is hoped to throw light on wider problems of the relation of British finds to the rapidly emerging picture of the Late Glacial hunting communities of Central Europe and the Low Countries.

The Balkans in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic: The Gate to Europe or a Cul-de-sac?

1992 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. KozŁowski
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Danube Basin ◽  
The Balkans

During the Last Interglacial Middle Palaeolithic industries of Crvena Stijena-type rich in side-scrapers with Levallois technique of recurrent type are specific to the Balkans. These industries have analogies in Anatolia and the northern part of the Middle East (Zagros-Group), but are different from industries typical of the middle Danube basin (Taubachian) and northern Central Europe (Moustero-Levalloisian). In the period preceding and immediately following the Lower Pleniglacial the Balkans were dominated by typical Mousterian and Moustero-Levalloisian, frequently with leaf points, similar to the industries of the lower Danube and Dniester basins, but unknown in western Anatolia. During the same period Eastern Micoquian developed in the middle Danube basin and northern Central Europe. Moustero-Levalloisian with leaf points persisted until the Early Interpleniglacial, but only in exceptional cases developed some Upper Palaeolithic features, and always without typical Aurignacian forms. The Aurignacian, unless it appears as a first Upper Palaeolithic culture in the Balkans with earliest dates in Europe (>40,000 years BP), seems to be an intrusive unit without any roots in the local Middle Palaeolithic. After 30,000 years BP, parallel to the Late Aurignacian, the first industries with backed blades appear. In the early stage these developed independently from those of Central Europe. Only after 26,000/24,000 BP were they followed in the eastern Balkans by assemblages strongly linked both morphologically and by raw materials to the Gravettian of the middle Danube basin. In the western Balkans, after 20,000 years BP, assemblages with shouldered points appeared, also probably of middle Danube origin. During the Last Interglacial and Interpleniglacial the territory of Balkans played an important transitional role between Anatolia and Central Europe; in the two Pleniglacials of the Würm this territory became some kind of cul-de-sac as the refugium for population groups from the middle Danube and northern Central Europe.

Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Pettitt
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
North Central ◽  
Widespread Occurrence ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Initial Discovery ◽  
North Central Europe ◽  
Early Upper

Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, human figurines have formed a noticeable part of the artistic record of the 30,000 years of the European Upper Palaeolithic. Some figurines—particularly the ‘Venuses’ of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian sensu lato)—have long served as icons of Upper Palaeolithic cultural achievement. This chapter reviews our current understanding of figurines of western and North Central Europe. Their first manifestation is with a few enigmatic examples during the Early Upper Palaeolithic (Aurignacian) of southwest Germany. A far more visible and geographically widespread manifestation comes with the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic Venus figurines, and a similarly widespread occurrence comes with the highly schematic side-profile outlines of the Gönnersdorf type, which belong to the Middle and Late Magdalenian. The history of interpretation and current thinking of these figurine horizons is discussed in this chapter, which should be read in conjunction with Chapter 30 (Farbstein).

Some Notes on the Prehistory of the Eastern Part of Central Europe

1924 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-181
Author(s):  
M. C. Burkitt
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

Having lately returned from Czecho-Slovakia, where I was attending an Anthropological Congress and studying museum collections, I thought perhaps it might interest members of the P.S.E.A. to have a note on what appears to be the succession of prehistoric cultures in that country.There seems to be nothing so far found corresponding to our Lower Palæolithic or earlier industries. It is true that there is one solitary lump of flint, roughly chipped, with large flake-scars and an ochreous patina that has been claimed as Lower Palæolithic in date, but it is really very little to go on. A poor kind of Mousterian, mostly not made of good flint, seems fairly common in Moravia although it has not been found near Prague. On the other hand, many of the tools in an undoubted Upper Palæolithic series recall by their technique and shape the industry of La Quina.

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