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In the article a series of Middle Aurignacian in situ sites and surface loci situated in the Carpathian Basin of the Eastern Central Europe is analysed using industrial and geochronological criteria recently developed for the respective Middle Aurignacian materials in Southwestern France. As a result, there were not only recognized the respective materials for the Carpathian Basin but were also identified both common and specific techno-typological features for taken together Pan-European Middle Aurignacian materials. Geochronologically, the Carpathian Basin’s sites (starting from GI -8a, ca. 36,300 cal. BP) are a little younger of the French materials (GI -8c, ca. 37,900 – 37,500 cal. BP). The realized study also demonstrated a possible series of various site types for Middle Aurignacian settlement pattern observations in the Carpathian Basin. The resulting analyses also allowed us to see on the new data and knowledge levels a basic Middle Aurignacian human dispersal from Europe into the East Mediterranean Levant.
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This paper presents analysis of the chipped stone industry from the upland settlement in Spišské Podhradie-Dreveník. The site has been devastated by the exploitation of travertine. The survey yielded 33 artefacts which can be dated to the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic (Szeletian, Aurignacian), the Late Palaeolithic or the Mesolithic. Two bifacial retouched points and a combined end scraper/burin tool made of radiolarite can be dated to the Szeletian. As for raw materials, radiolarite prevails over patinated silicite and chocolate flint.
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ABoth already known and newly found Palaeolithic sites in the Trencin microregion were appreciated. Stratigraphy has showed that eroded slopes were covered with the youngest loess OSL-dated to 16 700 ± 600 BP, which filled also ice wedges and fissures of the older loess layer or the Bt horizon of interglacial earth (eem) underneath. The oldest settlement belongs to the Middle Palaeolithic Micoquian (Trencianska Turna and Zamarovce) and Mousterian (Mnichova Lehota-Straze and Mnichova Lehota-Biele hliny). Leaf point cultures of the terminal Middle and incipient Late Palaeolithic occurred at the sites of Trencianska Turna I and II, Trencianska Turna-Hamre and Trencianske Stankovce I. Chronology of the Moravany-Dlha leaf points from the site of Novy Kolacin has been still questionable. The Aurignacian has been probably proved at the sites of Trencin IV and Ivanovce-Skala. In the Late Gravettian- in the shouldered point horizon - the largest settlement was at the sites of Trencianske Stankovce I-VI, Trencianska Turna I-IV, Trencianska Turna-Hamre, Mnichova Lehota I, Trencianske Bohuslavice and Zamarovce. The Epigravettian was found at Trencianska Turna-Hamre and Mnichova Lehota-Straze.
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In order to obtain a stratigraphic base for the dating of consecutive settlement phases, trial trenches were made in three sites - Trencianska Turna-Vrlacka I, II and Trencianska Turna-Hamre. The trenches enabled us to establish that Late Quaternary sedimentation at these sites was interrupted. The main hiatus spanned the period from the end of the last Interglacial (Eemian, OIS 5e) until the beginning of the Younger Pleniglacial (LGM, OIS 2). In that period the interglacial soil (luvisol) was washed out and horizon Bt was partially transformed by periglacial processes which co-occurred with loess sedimentation. The Middle Palaeolithic settlement represented by the Micoquian falls at the last Interglacial. Later, within the sedimentological hiatus the Leaf Point Cultures settled in the area at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic and the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, and subsequently the Aurignacian and the Gravettian occur in the area. During the maximum of the Younger Pleniglacial large frost wedges formed which were filled in with loess (unit 2b). During the Late Glacial, the loess of unit 2a sedimented, just as the younger generation of frost wedges. The Epigravettian finds registered in unit 2a (at the site of Trencianska Turna-Hamre) also - most probably - the artefacts scattered on the surface attributed to the Epiaurignacian, correspond to the same period. The loess cover preserved in the investigated area is dated to the post-Pleniglacial period which is confirmed by the OSL date for unit 2 (16.7 ± 0.6 Kyr BP).
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