Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe

Karavanić, Ivor; Klindžić, Rajna Šošić; Ahern, James C. M.; Čondić, Natalija; Janković, Ivor; Zubčić, Krunoslav; Smith, Fred H.

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“…Late Upper Palaeolithic (Epigravettian) sites appear in larger numbers after the LGM and are present on the Adriatic coast and its hinterland and offshore islands, with evidence for movement of raw materials between northern Italy, Istria, and inland Croatia (Malez 1979;Cancellieri 2011;Vukosavljević et al 2011Vukosavljević et al , 2015Karavanić et al 2013Karavanić et al , 2015. It is likely that there was extensive activity on a landscape that is now submerged at depths of 60-110 m below present sea level and that many sites present there have been submerged by subsequent sea-level rise (Šegota 1982;Miracle 1995;Whallon 2007 Glycymeris, and Dentalium, collected for decorative purposes, is evidence of visits to a coastline that would have been more distant than today (Benjamin and Črešnar 2009;Vujević and Parica 2009;Vukosavljević and Karavanić 2015).…”

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“…These are of Middle Palaeolithic type including typical Mousterian centripetal cores and side scrapers, with the addition of some possible Upper Palaeolithic tools ( Fig. 18.3; Karavanić et al 2009Karavanić et al , 2015Karavanić 2015;Janković et al 2011;Barbir 2015). Most of the artefacts are on the seabed surface and have been disturbed by marine currents but probably not moved very far from their original position.…”

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Croatia: Submerged Prehistoric Sites in a Karstic Landscape

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Butorac

2020

The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes

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Croatia: Submerged Prehistoric Sites in a Karstic Landscape

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Karavanić

Butorac

2020

The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes

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“…Layer G1 is sometimes attributed to the Aurignacian on the basis of four bone points and a handful of Aurignacian tools. However, the authenticity of the artifacts and the level of mixing is still debated (Karavanić et al 2016;Karavanić and Patou-Mathis 2009) and the lithic collection has also been suggested to be either Mousterian, Szeletian or Olschewian Smith 2011, 2013;Zilhão 2009). To complicate matters further, there are conflicting radiocarbon dates from this level that place the layer anywhere between 39 and 32 ka cal BP (see Ahern et al 2004;Higham et al 2006;Smith et al 1999).…”

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The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

Chu

2018

J World Prehist

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Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin's geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin's archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo) archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.

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The Middle Paleolithic of the Balkans: Industrial Variability, Human Biogeography, and Neanderthal Demise

Dogandžić

2023

J World Prehist

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Europe is characterized by an uneven record of Middle Paleolithic occupations. Specifically, large parts of southeastern Europe display markedly lower site densities and less intensive evidence of human presence than is found elsewhere; this has often resulted in the exclusion of the Balkans from debates related to Pleistocene human adaptation. The discrepancy stems either from the lower population densities of southeastern Europe or an imbalance in research across Europe. Additionally, our understanding of Balkan Middle Paleolithic stone tool industries suffers from the use of Mousterian labels defined when Bordian typology was the chief method of lithic analysis. Industrial facies then defined and still in use include Balkan Charentian, Levallois Mousterian, Micromousterian, Denticulate Mousterian; their relation with the rest of the Eurasian record was and remains unclear. This paper sets aside the issue of scarcity of Pleistocene occupations and tries to address Neanderthal biogeography, and variations in Neanderthal technological behavior and subsistence, based on the available record. It reviews the current Middle Paleolithic record in the Balkans, presents the apparent temporal and spatial trends, and presents the provisional biogeography of hominins, including scenarios for the demise of Neanderthals at or soon after the arrival of modern humans in Europe. The paper ends with a discussion of perspectives for future research arising from this analysis of the available record and proposes some hypotheses regarding the role of the Balkans in the overall context of the occupational history of western Eurasia in the Middle/Late Pleistocene.

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Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Croatia: Submerged Prehistoric Sites in a Karstic Landscape

Croatia: Submerged Prehistoric Sites in a Karstic Landscape

The Danube Corridor Hypothesis and the Carpathian Basin: Geological, Environmental and Archaeological Approaches to Characterizing Aurignacian Dynamics

The Middle Paleolithic of the Balkans: Industrial Variability, Human Biogeography, and Neanderthal Demise

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