Publication detail

Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia

SVOBODA, J. HLADILOVÁ, Š. HORÁČEK, I. KAISER, J. KRÁLÍK, M. NOVÁK, J. NOVÁK, M. POKORNÝ, P. SÁZELOVÁ, S. SMOLÍKOVÁ, L. ZIKMUND, T.

Original Title

Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Creating an overall scheme of Gravettian stratigraphy and chronology in the Middle Danube area is a matter of current debate. This paper addresses the formation of microstratigraphies at large open-air sites, evidence of the earliest Gravettian occupation in the Dolní Vestonice-Pavlov area, and occurrence of early ceramics from this context. The case presented here is a complex early Gravettian microstratigraphy of charcoal deposits at Dolní Vestonice IIa with a sequence of AMS dates between 28.4 and 31.7 ka uncal BP (30e33 ka cal BC) and two middle Gravettian (Pavlovian) dates from the nearby living floor. The associated environmental evidence of charcoal, pollen, molluscs, and vertebrates shows that climatic development through the six horizons was relatively stable, but with a certain variability in moisture and extension of forest. In horizon 3c, the molluscs and both small and large vertebrates indicate an episode of restricted forest formation around 28.4 ka uncal BP (30e31 ka cal BC). Baked clay (ceramic) fragments from horizon 3c represent the earliest dated items of this kind in the Gravettian. Microstratigraphies of this type demonstrate the complexity of cultural deposits at the large Gravettian sites and throw light on the hitherto poorly understood time-period of the early Gravettian in Moravia.

Keywords

Dolní Vestonice, Early Gravettian, Microstratigraphy, Environment, Burnt clay, Czech Republic

Authors

SVOBODA, J.; HLADILOVÁ, Š.; HORÁČEK, I.; KAISER, J.; KRÁLÍK, M.; NOVÁK, J.; NOVÁK, M.; POKORNÝ, P.; SÁZELOVÁ, S.; SMOLÍKOVÁ, L.; ZIKMUND, T.

RIV year

2015

Released

2. 3. 2015

ISBN

1040-6182

Periodical

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Year of study

359-360

Number

1

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

195

Pages to

210

Pages count

16

BibTex

@article{BUT108662,
  author="Jiří {Svoboda} and Šárka {Hladilová} and Ivan {Horáček} and Jozef {Kaiser} and Miroslav {Králík} and Jan {Novák} and Martin {Novák} and Petr {Pokorný} and Sandra {Sázelová} and Libuše {Smolíková} and Tomáš {Zikmund}",
  title="Dolní Věstonice IIa: Gravettian microstratigraphy, environment, and the origin of baked clay production in Moravia",
  journal="QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL",
  year="2015",
  volume="359-360",
  number="1",
  pages="195--210",
  doi="10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.048",
  issn="1040-6182"
}