PALAEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT IN MORAVANY NAD VAHOM-DLHA. RESULTS OF JURAJ BARTA'S EXCAVATIONS IN 1963 AND 1990 (Paleoliticke osidlenie v Moravanoch nad Vahom-Dlhej. Vysledky vyskumov Juraja Bartu z rokov 1963 a 1990)

• Authors: Nemergut Adrian
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study presents more complex compilation of J. Barta's revisory excavations at Moravany nad Vahom-Dlha that were realised in 1963 and 1990. In more details it describes the methods used in the research, stratigraphic situation at the site and the analysed collection of chipped stone industry as well. Stone artefacts were found mostly in two layers one closely above the other. The cultural layer purportedly occurred in a fossil earth under topsoil prevailingly and rarely also in a layer of light loess. Mostly, they are made of local raw materials, such as radiolarites and quartz. Imported raw materials, obsidian and limnosilicite, are less frequent. The range of raw materials is complemented with silicificated sandstone. As the technology of chipped stone artefacts is concerned, a stone waste is the most numerous, which is followed by unretouched flakes, retouched tools, unretouched blades and cores. The most frequent implements are leaf-shaped points - the type with rounded base - and their fragments of various sizes and in connection with the retouch type in three variants: with overall flat retouch, partial flat retouch and without flat retouch. Their production is documented by finds of semi-products and waste as well at the site. Retouched blades and flakes are rather frequent, too. End-scrapers, side-scrapers, burins and combined tools are less frequent. Analysis of the tools technology and typology help date the site settlement into the Szeletian period. This is connected with the frequent occurrence of flat retouch on leaf-shaped points and on some other retouched tools as well. The stone tools composition with ample amount of leaf-shaped points, end-scrapers, side-scrapers, etc. together with usage of local raw materials and a big share of flakes in comparison to blades are typical characteristics. The site at Moravany nad Vahom-Dlha is pointed out to have a big potential for deeper comprehension of the transitional period between the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic and its significance in prehistory.

Keywords

EN

CHIPPED STONE INDUSTRY; EXCAVATIONS; LEAF-SHAPED POINTS; PALAEOLIT; SETTLEMENTS; SLOVAKIA; SZELETIAN

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183-206
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nemergut Adrian

• Mgr. Adrian Nemergut, Archeologicky ustav SAV, Akademicka 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA095714