Looking around Peştera Cu Oase: The beginnings of Upper Paleolithic in Romania

Anghelinu, Mircea; Niță, Loredana; Sitlivy, V.; Uthmeier, Thorsten; Băltean, Ion

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.012

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“…6200 BCE and 5500 BCE) cultures (Chapman, 2000, 237-239;Chu et al, 2016a), followed by sterile sediments overlaying two layers of early Upper Paleolithic artifacts, corresponding in raw material and form to those collected throughout the 20 th century now in museum including several bladelet cores (e.g., thick endscrapers, nosed endscrapers), blades and endscrapers (Figure 3). Most or all of the blades come from single-platform cores and the high bladeto-flake ratio of the lithic assemblage made primarily from socalled Banat flint (Ciornei et al, in press) that is technologically consistent with the Aurignacian artifacts from the open air sites of the Romanian Banat (Anghelinu et al, 2012;Sitlivy et al, 2012;Sitlivy et al, 2014;Chu et al, 2016b;Chu et al, 2019). Some of the lithics in the upper layer were recovered in sandy deposits and showed fine-grained fluvial abrasion (sensu Chu, 2016, p. 123), while others were found in fresher condition within finer-grained deposits.…”

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“…42-37 ka cal BP; Trinkaus et al, 2003a;Trinkaus et al, 2003b;Trinkaus et al, 2012). The conspicuous absence of accompanying archeological artifacts stimulated the re-investigation of the openair sites of Românesţi, Cosava and Tincova (Figure 1) that highlight the archeological importance of the Banat during the early Upper Paleolithic (e.g., Anghelinu et al, 2012;Sitlivy et al, 2012;Kels et al, 2014;Sitlivy et al, 2014;Chu et al, 2016b). Furthermore, abundant, nearby loess archives have augmented our understanding of the prevailing palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Late Pleistocene (e.g., Schmidt et al, 2013;Kels et al, 2014;Schulte et al, 2014;Obreht et al, 2015;Zeeden et al, 2016;Gavrilov et al, 2018;Pötter et al, 2020).…”

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The Early Upper Paleolithic Site Crvenka-At, Serbia–The First Aurignacian Lowland Occupation Site in the Southern Carpathian Basin

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Chu

Fischer³

et al. 2021

Front. Earth Sci.

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The Carpathian Basin is a key region for understanding modern human expansion into western Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene because of numerous early hominid fossil find spots. However, the corresponding archeological record remains less understood due to a paucity of well dated, contextualized sites. To help rectify this, we excavated and sampled Crvenka-At (Serbia), one of the largest Upper Paleolithic sites in the region to obtain radiometric ages for the archeological artifacts and evaluate their depositional context and subsequent site formation processes. Our results confirm that this locality represents a multiple-occupation Aurignacian site that dates to 36.4 ± 2.8 ka based on modeling of luminescence ages. Electrical resistivity tomography measurements indicate that the site formed on a sandy-gravelly fill terrace covered by overbank deposits. Complex grain size distributions further suggest site formation in contrasting depositional environments typically occurring alongside fluvial channels, at lakeshores, in alluvial fan or delta settings. The site is thus the closest (ca. 50 km) known Aurignacian site to the earliest undisputed modern human remains in Europe at the Peştera cu oase and some intervals of the occupation may therefore have been contemporaneous with them. This suggests that modern humans, during their initial settlement of Europe, exploited a wider range of topographic and ecological settings than previously posited. Our findings indicate that lowland areas of the Carpathian Basin are an important part of understanding the early settlement patterns of modern humans in Europe.

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The Early Upper Paleolithic Site Crvenka-At, Serbia–The First Aurignacian Lowland Occupation Site in the Southern Carpathian Basin

Nett

Chu

Fischer³

et al. 2021

Front. Earth Sci.

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“…in Ripiceni-Izvor, an open-air site on the right bank of the Prut (for a critical assessment of the claims see Anghelinu et al . 2012, especially 145–6; Anghelinu and Niță 2014, especially 181). In this case too, I will refrain from further discussion.…”

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Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Fotiadis

2016

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The Petrota chert source, in Greek Thrace, was exploited in the Middle Palaeolithic and again in the Neolithic and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. An extensive scatter of products of that exploitation today surrounds the source. The site was systematically surveyed between 1998 and 2010. The present paper is devoted exclusively to the issue of the chronology of the Middle Palaeolithic component. The best, though still imperfect, indicator of chronology is the presence in the scatter of bifacially flaked leaf-points. A review of the literature on the chronostratigraphy of such artefacts in Europe, from Thuringia to Crimea, shows that they had a long career. They first appeared about 200,000 years ago and were still manufactured about 45,000 years ago. On the basis of various considerations, it is suggested that the leaf-points of Petrota and, accordingly, the Palaeolithic component at the site, belong to an advanced stage of that long period, probably dating between roughly 100,000 and 45/40,000 years ago.

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“…Recently, the importance of the Danube River corridor as a route for hominin dispersal and a zone of high resource productivity is emerging through new discoveries and the re‐evaluation of previous Palaeolithic finds in the wider catchment of the southern Carpathian Basin in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia (e.g. Anghelinu et al ., 2012; Băltean, 2011; Chu, 2018; Hauck et al ., 2018; Mihailović et al ., 2011; Tsanova, 2008).…”

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Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans

Borić

Cristiani

Hopkins

et al. 2021

J Quaternary Science

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The article presents evidence about the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition interval in the karst area of the Danube Gorges in the Lower Danube Basin. We review the extant data and present new evidence from two recently investigated sites found on the Serbian side of the Danube River – Tabula Traiana and Dubočka‐Kozja caves. The two sites have yielded layers dating to both the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic and have been investigated by the application of modern standards of excavation and recovery along with a suite of state‐of‐the‐art analytical procedures. The presentation focuses on micromorphological analyses of the caves’ sediments, characterisation of cryptotephra, a suite of new radiometric dates (accelerator mass spectrometry and optically stimulated luminescence) as well as proteomics (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry) and stable isotope data in discerning patterns of human occupation of these locales over the long term.

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Looking around Peştera Cu Oase: The beginnings of Upper Paleolithic in Romania

Cited by 21 publications

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The Early Upper Paleolithic Site Crvenka-At, Serbia–The First Aurignacian Lowland Occupation Site in the Southern Carpathian Basin

The Early Upper Paleolithic Site Crvenka-At, Serbia–The First Aurignacian Lowland Occupation Site in the Southern Carpathian Basin

Leaf-Points From Petrota (Greek Thrace) and the Palaeolithic Chronology of the Vrahos Chert Quarry

Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans

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