ANTHROPOS - Studies in Anthropology, Palaeoethnology, Palaeontology and Quaternary Geology, Vol. 36, N.S. 28, 2013
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The purpose of the presented work is to summarize the results of the grant project “The Neanderthals from the Bojnice Site in the Spatio-Temporal Context of Central Europe” that focused on the evaluation of archaeological excavations carried out in Bojnice I – Prepoštská jaskyňa (the Prepoštská Cave) and Bojnice III – hradná priekopa (the Castle moat) in Slovakia.
The main part of the collection originates from the research by J. Bárta, member of the staff of the Institute of Archaeology SAS, who conducted the digs on both sites in the 1960s. A part of the materials included into the analysis was acquired by archaeological research performed by F. Prošek (Bojnice I), random gathering carried out by the workers of the Anthropos Institute (Bojnice I), and from the geological documentation by V. Ložek in Bojnice III.
The work is divided into several parts for the sake of clarity. The introductory chapters (1) summarize the hitherto findings regarding the Middle Palaeolithic settlement of Slovakia, the history of research as well as some general aspects of the studied sites. A critical evaluation of the preserved documentation and the finds themselves (Chapter 2.1) is followed by a reconstruction of the original locations of the finds. A constituent of the introductory chapters is also a brief characterization of the descriptive system utilised for the analysis of the industry, which employs a multistage database with hierarchic observation of various attributes of the stone industry (Chapter 2.2). Some methodological aspects relating to the
classification of raw materials, dating, and reconstructions of spatial structures are discussed in Chapters 2.3–2.5. The analysis proper of archaeological information is divided into two main parts according to the studied localities, i.e. Bojnice I – the Prepoštská Cave (Chapter 3) and Bojnice III – the Castle moat (Chapter 4). The latter site is split up into
archaeological layers defined by J. Bárta, and subsequently assessed as a whole. The study of both sites revealed some problems of a more general character that are discussed independently (Chapter 5). These include the issues of the so-called “missing artefacts” (Chapter 5.1) or the classification of lithic industry based on bifacial tools (Chapter 5.2). In the concluding summation, we endeavour after placing of the sites within the context of Middle Palaeolithic settlement of Central Europe (Chapter 6). Added are also old and updated analyses by various authors (Chapters 7 and 8).
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The purpose of the presented work is to summarize the results of the grant project “The Neanderthals from the Bojnice Site in the Spatio-Temporal Context of Central Europe” that focused on the evaluation of archaeological excavations carried out in Bojnice I – Prepoštská jaskyňa (the Prepoštská Cave) and Bojnice III – hradná priekopa (the Castle moat) in Slovakia.
The main part of the collection originates from the research by J. Bárta, member of the staff of the Institute of Archaeology SAS, who conducted the digs on both sites in the 1960s. A part of the materials included into the analysis was acquired by archaeological research performed by F. Prošek (Bojnice I), random gathering carried out by the workers of the Anthropos Institute (Bojnice I), and from the geological documentation by V. Ložek in Bojnice III.
The work is divided into several parts for the sake of clarity. The introductory chapters (1) summarize the hitherto findings regarding the Middle Palaeolithic settlement of Slovakia, the history of research as well as some general aspects of the studied sites. A critical evaluation of the preserved documentation and the finds themselves (Chapter 2.1) is followed by a reconstruction of the original locations of the finds. A constituent of the introductory chapters is also a brief characterization of the descriptive system utilised for the analysis of the industry, which employs a multistage database with hierarchic observation of various attributes of the stone industry (Chapter 2.2). Some methodological aspects relating to the
classification of raw materials, dating, and reconstructions of spatial structures are discussed in Chapters 2.3–2.5. The analysis proper of archaeological information is divided into two main parts according to the studied localities, i.e. Bojnice I – the Prepoštská Cave (Chapter 3) and Bojnice III – the Castle moat (Chapter 4). The latter site is split up into
archaeological layers defined by J. Bárta, and subsequently assessed as a whole. The study of both sites revealed some problems of a more general character that are discussed independently (Chapter 5). These include the issues of the so-called “missing artefacts” (Chapter 5.1) or the classification of lithic industry based on bifacial tools (Chapter 5.2). In the concluding summation, we endeavour after placing of the sites within the context of Middle Palaeolithic settlement of Central Europe (Chapter 6). Added are also old and updated analyses by various authors (Chapters 7 and 8).
Kůlna Cave Samples of antler and bone found at Kůlna Cave, Moravian Karst, Czech Republic, submitted by Dr P. Neruda, Anthropos Institute, Moravian Museum, Zelny trh 6, Brno 659 37, Czech Republic.