Studies on the Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia

Contents

List of Figures ;

Part I: Session XVII-4. The Upper Palaeolithic research in Central and Eastern Europe ;

The Upper Palaeolithic research in Central and Eastern Europe – György Lengyel, Jarosław Wilczyński ;

The riddle in the middle – insights into the Bavarian Magdalenian – Amira Adaileh ;

Epigravettian in the area north of Sudetes: a case study from the site Sowin 7, SW Poland – Andrzej Wiśniewski, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska, Cyprian Kozyra, Marcin Chłoń, Zofia Różok, and Antonín Přichystal ;

Upper Gravettian site cluster in Lubná (Czech Republic) – Petr Šída ;

Les occupations de plein air du Paléolithique supérieurà la périphérie des Carpates roumaines – Alain Tuffreau, Roxana Dobrescu et Sanda Balescu ;

So many caves, so little time: a preliminary report from a western Romanian karst survey – Wei Chu, Adrian Doboș, Scott D. McLin ;

New fieldwork at Mitoc-Malu Galben (Romania): An overview of the 2013 to 2016 excavations – Philip R Nigst, Timothée Libois, Tansy Branscombe, Marjolein D. Bosch, Paul Haesaerts, Vasile Chirica, Pierre Noiret ;

The cultural dynamics of Upper Paleolithic to the East of the Carpathians reflected by the characteristics of the Bistrița Valley settlements (Romania), with special focus on the occupations from Poiana Cireșului site – Elena-Cristina Nițu, Marin Cârciumaru, Nejma Goutas, Ovidiu Cîrstina, Adrian Nicolae, Florin Ionuț Lupu, Marian Leu ;

Zooarchaeological analyzes of the faunal remains of the upper layer of Climăuţi II (Republic of Moldova) – Laëtitia Demay, Teodor Obadă, Sergei Covalenco, Pierre Noiret, Stéphane Péan, Marylène Patou-Mathis ;

The revision of the Gravettian sequence in the Kostenki-Borshchevo locality in the river Don basin (Russia) – Sergey Lisitsyn ;

Industries of the end of Upper Palaeolithic in the south of Russian plain (northeastern Azov Sea region) and the Northern Caucasus – Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Ekaterina V. Doronicheva, Andrey G. Nedomolkin ;

Part II: Session XVII-6. Lithic raw materials procurement during the upper Palaeolithic from Eurasia. Traditional approaches and contributions from the Archaeometry ;

Foreword – Marta Sánchez de la Torre, Xavier Mangado, Josep Maria Fullola ;

Procurement and exploitation of lithic raw materials in the Middle Palaeolithic of the North-Central Caucasus (Preliminary results) – E.V. Doronicheva, M.S. Shackley, M.A. Kulkova ;

First data on the characterisation of siliceous raw materials and the catchment areas from Cova de les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain) – Aleix Eixea, Álvaro Martínez-Alfaro, Miguel Ángel Bel, Clodoaldo Roldán, Sonia Murcia, David Vie, Alfred Sanchis, Valentín Villaverde ;

Raw material procurement at Abrigo do Poço Rock shelter (Central Portugal) – Pereira, Eduardo Paixão, Marina Évora, João Marreiros, David Nora, Patrícia Monteiro, Sandra Assis, Vânia Carvalho, Trenton Holliday ;

Multi-method study of a Pyrenean lithological tracer and its presence in the Magdalenian of Cova del Parco and Forcas I rock shelter (NE Iberia) – Marta Sánchez de La Torre, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Stéphan Dubernet, Bernard Gratuze, Xavier Mangado, Pilar Utrilla, Josep Maria Fullola ;

Author’s list

About the Author

György Lengyel an associate professor at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Miskolc, Hungary, and research associate at the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences. ;

Jarosław Wilczyński is head of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology of the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences. ;

Marta Sánchez de la Torre is currently a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher at the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar (SERP) of the University of Barcelona. ;

Xavier Mangado is a professor in prehistory at the University of Barcelona and researcher at the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar (SERP) of the University of Barcelona. ;

Josep Maria Fullola has been a professor in prehistory at the University of Barcelona since 1985. In 1986 he created the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar (SERP) of the University of Barcelona, a research group that promotes advanced research in prehistoric archaeology, being since its creation the main director.