Mammoth bone structures: A Comparison of Dolní Věstonice and Spadzista Street Site in Kraków

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2021.102917" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.anthro.2021.102917</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mammoth bone structures: A Comparison of Dolní Věstonice and Spadzista Street Site in Kraków

Original language description

The interpretation of accumulations of mammoth bones has been a long-term subject of archaeozoological studies. As the issue is typically approached from a taphonomic perspective, the broad spectrum of represented bones, especially the presence of large, non-meat bones, is taken as evidence of the local death of animals – either through natural causes or as a consequence of hunting. The number of mandibles and lower molars are used to calculate the number of hunted individuals, as they are the most frequently represented element. However, this approach faces numerous pitfalls. Interpretations, even contradictory, always neglect some important fact, especially associations with artefacts and the living floor. In our opinion, the use of ethnohistorical knowledge could mitigate, alleviate or eliminate some of the discrepancies. The fact that these enormous bone accumulations are typical only for the Gravettian (s. lato) underscores their culturally conditioned character. A traditional source of contro- versial interpretations is the well-known mammoth bone heap at Kraków – St. Bronislawa Hill (Spadzista Street B+B1). Until recently, all that was known from the classic settlement agglomeration of ‘‘mammoth hunters’’ near Dolní Věstonice was a ‘‘large accumulation of mammoth bones’’ studied by B. Klíma. However, based on unpublished terrain documentation, it has recently been possible to reconstruct several other accumulations directly in the base camp in the upper part of the Dolní Věstonice I site. The various phenomena with which the bone depositions there are associated provide new impulses for additional dicussions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

L'Anthropologie

ISSN

0003-5521

e-ISSN

1873-5827

Volume of the periodical

125

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000710439900008

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