Exploitation of radiolarites at the Milovice I Gravettian site

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00094862%3A_____%2F25%3A10004989" target="_blank" >RIV/00094862:_____/25:10004989 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73633669

Result on the web

<a href="https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/285/311" target="_blank" >https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/285/311</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2025.285" target="_blank" >10.35686/AR.2025.285</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exploitation of radiolarites at the Milovice I Gravettian site

Original language description

The lithic assemblage from the Gravettian site at Milovice I was predominantly composed of radiolarite. To reconstruct the mobility patterns of the Gravettian population, we addressed the question of whether the radiolarites were imported from the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB) of the Western Carpathians or elsewhere.Another plausible source was the gravels from under the Pavlovské vrchy Hills. These are known to have been exploited in the Upper Palaeolithic, most notably at the Milovice I site during the Aurignacian.Our research revealed that local gravels were not the primary source of the Gravettian radiolarite artefacts, as the two differ macroscopically. Some flakes, and possibly microgravettes, are an exception, as their material is sometimes similar to gravel radiolarites. The occasional exploitation of local gravels, along with the small dimensions of the Gravettian industry, possibly reflects a shortage of material at a certain point of the site&apos;s occupation and the necessity to adopt curated lithic technology when trips for new material were unfeasible. Moreover, the curated lithic technology observed in the Milovice I assemblage is dissimilar to other large Pavlovian sites, suggesting more economic behaviour and influence from radiolarite-supplied sites along the Váh River in the Late Gravettian.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA25-15848S" target="_blank" >GA25-15848S: Tracing mobility patterns of Gravettian hunter-gatherers through chemical fingerprinting of exotic flints and cherts</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Archeologické rozhledy

ISSN

0323-1267

e-ISSN

2570-9151

Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

221-240

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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