Pyrotechnology, the ability for hominins to use fire as a tool, is considered to be one of the
most important behavioural adaptations in human evolution. While several studies have …

Aeolian sediments and landforms represent a unique source of proxy data allowing the
detailed research of palaeoenvironmental changes. For example, dune morphology and …

This book is the first complete synthesis of research undertaken so far on the Upper
Palaeolithic archaeology of the Caucasus. It discusses the cultural changes that took place …

Reindeer are part of the faunal suite that dominated central Europe during the last glacial
cycle. Their importance to Late Gravettian hunters as prey and a source of raw materials …

Insights into human life in Central Europe at~ 30–20,000 years ago have come from studies
of archaeological and paleontological materials in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia, including …

This paper compares lithic and faunal assemblages from Milovice (Czech Republic) and
Kraków Spadzista (Poland) archaeological sites, with the aim of reconstructing temporal …

Abstract Interpretations of the European Upper Paleolithic archaeological record have long
relied on concepts of past populations. In particular, cultural taxonomic units—which are …

The archaeological site 3 in Miechów provided samples for anthracological, carpological,
zooarchaeological and malacofaunal analysis in order to investigate the dynamics of local …

Bösken et al.(2017) aimed at contributing to the environmental variability of the Gravettian
population in 'southeastern'Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) with an …

Résumé L'Est de la Roumanie est une région étendue sur 87 500 km 2, ouverte vers les
steppes orientales, et le lieu de la plus grande concentration connue des sites gravettiens et …