The Upper and Final Gravettian in Western Slovakia and Moravia. Different approaches, new questions

Gravettian backed points from Unit K11 of Dolní Věstonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic)

“…This knowledge is often limited to the types that are classified according to the Sonneville-Bordes type list and, at best, to tables of drawings (e.g., Klíma, 1997;Hromada and Kozlowski, 1995). Discussion of types of Central Europe industries and attempts to define and describe the production systems are rare (e.g., Oliva, 2009a;Polanská et al, in presse;Polanská and Hromadová, 2015;Vlačiky et al, 2013;Wilczyński et al, 2015). Hence, the detailed description and characterization of the types from this geographical area are important.…”

The Last Glacial Maximum and acceleration of technological change in the Lesotho highlands

“…Straus (2015Straus ( , 2016 argues that this split strategy would have provided foragers with two contrasting weapon types -a deadly but fragile large point projectile, and a more easily repaired composite projectile. Gravettian foragers just prior to the LGM used backed bladelets alongside a regionally variable collection of points and knives as their climate cooled (Polanská et al, 2021).…”

The Palaeolithic sequence of the Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, Savona, North-western Italy)

“…According to the chrono-cultural scale proposed for Central Europe (Lengyel, Wilczynski 2018, Fig. 1;Wilczynski et alii 2020;Polanska et alii 2021) they fall into the period during which the Epigravettian Culture started to develop. Unfortunately, this period is still poorly known all over the Italian Peninsula (Gambassini, Moroni 2004;Mussi, Peresani 2004).…”