New geoarcheological studies at the Middle Paleolithic sites of Khotylevo I and Betovo (Bryansk oblast, Russia): Some preliminary results

Ocherednoi, A.K.; Salnaya, Natalya; Voskresenskaya, Ekaterina; Vishnyatsky, Leonid

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.005

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“…There are known individual sites that define the northern periphery of the Neanderthal ecumene, most notably in other regions of Central, Eastern and Western Europe (e.g., sites Lichtenberg and Königsaue in Germany, or Khotylevo in Russia;cf. Conrad and Prindiville 2000;Bosinski 2006;Kozłowski J.K. 2004;Howard et al 2007;Rolland 2010;Hartz et al 2012;Ocherednoi et al 2014;2014a;Picin 2016;Richter 2016). In the light of the cited data on the chronology of the selected Middle Palaeolithic sites in Poland, the question of dating the artefacts presented in this article must be limited only to the sphere of theoretical digressions.…”

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Middle Palaeolithic flint materials from Central Poland. Case study of the site Polesie 1, Łowicz county, Łódź voivodship

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Domańska²,

Rzepecki³

2020

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This paper deals with the presentation of flint artefacts of Middle Palaeolithic provenience discovered during the excavations at the site of Polesie 1 in the central part of Central Poland. An in-depth analysis of its morphology, taphonomy and readable technological features helped uncover some elements of the products of the Micoquian tradition. This article discusses these extraordinary findings in the context of their importance as the northern-most such finds on the map of Middle Palaeolithic sites in Poland. Selected elements of research on paleoenvironmental conditions of the studied area are also presented as key points in the discussion on the possibilities of researching the Neanderthal settlement ecumene within the Polish Lowland.

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Middle Palaeolithic flint materials from Central Poland. Case study of the site Polesie 1, Łowicz county, Łódź voivodship

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Domańska²,

Rzepecki³

2020

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“…Examples are Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Lower Saxony, Germany) [15,16], Königsaue layer A and C (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) [17,18], Pouch (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) [1,19], Piekary IIa layer 7c [20] and Piekary III [21] (Poland), Wroław-Hallera Av. (Poland) [22], Pietraszyn 49a (Poland) [23], and Khotylevo (Russia) [24][25][26][27][28]. Potentially, comparable tools to the Lichtenberg Keilmesser occur as far east as southern Siberia [29].…”

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The Lichtenberg Keilmesser - it’s all about the angle

Weiß

2020

PLoS ONE

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The presence of the 'Keilmesser-concept' in late Middle Paleolithic assemblages of Central and Eastern Europe defines the eponymous 'Keilmessergruppen'. The site of Lichtenberg (Lower Saxony, Germany) was discovered in 1987 and yielded one of the most important Keilmessergruppen assemblages of the northwestern European Plain. At that time, researchers used the bifacial backed knives to define a new type, the 'Lichtenberger Keilmesser', which they characterized by an aesthetic form-function concept with a specific range of morphological variability on the one hand, and a standardized convex cutting edge one the other hand. Thereby, a shape continuum was observed between different formfunction concepts in the Lichtenberg assemblage, from Keilmesser through to Faustkeilblä tter and handaxes. In a contrasting view, it was recently suggested that the morphology of Keilmesser, including what is defined here as type Lichtenberg, is the result of solutions to establish and maintain edge angles during resharpening. With the intention to evaluate these contrasting hypotheses, I conducted a re-analysis of the Keilmesser from Lichtenberg and their relationship to central German late Middle Paleolithic knives, using 3D geometric morphometric analyses and an automatized approach to measure edge angles on 3D models. Despite a morphological overlap of the tools from both regions, I could show that the Lichtenberg Keilmesser concept refers to one solution to create a tool with specific functionalities, like potentially cutting, prehension, and reusability. To establish and maintain its functionality, certain angles where created by the knappers along the active edges. This behavior resulted in specific shapes and positions of the active parts and created what looks like a standardized or template morphology of this Keilmesser type.

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“…Sites with good preservation of the cultural layer have also been found, but have unfortunately been excavated in only small part: Proniatyn (layer 5), Buhliv V (excavation 3, layer 2) (Sytnik 2000), Nosovo I (Praslov 1968). Such sites as Il'skaya 1 (Shchelinsky, Koulakov 2005), Khotylevo I and Betovo (Ocherednoi et al 2013) have also been excavated in significant part, but the documentation and preservation of their cultural layers do not allow intrasite spatial analysis ( Fig. 1A).…”

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Spatial organization of the open-air Middle Palaeolithic site Ketrosy 1 (middle Dniester valley): third cultural layer

Larionova

2020

AGL

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New geoarcheological studies at the Middle Paleolithic sites of Khotylevo I and Betovo (Bryansk oblast, Russia): Some preliminary results

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Middle Palaeolithic flint materials from Central Poland. Case study of the site Polesie 1, Łowicz county, Łódź voivodship

Middle Palaeolithic flint materials from Central Poland. Case study of the site Polesie 1, Łowicz county, Łódź voivodship

The Lichtenberg Keilmesser - it’s all about the angle

Spatial organization of the open-air Middle Palaeolithic site Ketrosy 1 (middle Dniester valley): third cultural layer

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