On the periphery of a mammoth 'kjökkenmödding'. The new excavation of the extensive bone deposit at Dolní Věstonice I
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081758%3A_____%2F23%3A00579306" target="_blank" >RIV/68081758:_____/23:00579306 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2023/Programme.aspx?Program=3" target="_blank" >https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2023/Programme.aspx?Program=3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the periphery of a mammoth 'kjökkenmödding'. The new excavation of the extensive bone deposit at Dolní Věstonice I
Original language description
The contribution presents the first results of the recent excavation at the classic Gravettian site of Dolní Věstonice I, focused on the eastern periphery of the large mammoth bone deposit located in the site's upper part. The find layers were re-assessed to obtain new zooarchaeological material for aDNA and stable isotopes analyses, as well as samples for age determination and reconstruction of the paleoenvironment within the ERC project 'MAMBA - Exploring Mammoth Bone Accumulations In Central Europe'. The main find layer contained abundant faunal remains, lithic artefacts, charcoal fragments, and malacofauna. The site and find layer formation are complex and document a post-occupational interplay between different natural factors, including a baseline aeolian sedimentation, pedogenesis, slope processes, and permafrost features. The new excavation yielded thousands of bone, tooth, and tusk specimens belonging to animal species commonly found here during previous fieldwork and at other sites in this region, such as woolly mammoth and rhinoceros, horse, reindeer, wolf and fox. The scarce lithic material includes a few microdenticulates, which allow us to attribute this assemblage to the Pavlovian. New data were also obtained for the deposit's geomorphological setting and spatial structure.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů