Tracing the transfers of raw materials in the Gravettian of Moravia and Silesia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081758%3A_____%2F25%3A00617098" target="_blank" >RIV/68081758:_____/25:00617098 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00094862:_____/25:10001104 RIV/61989592:15310/25:73627742 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00140502

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618225000084" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618225000084</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109665" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109665</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tracing the transfers of raw materials in the Gravettian of Moravia and Silesia

Original language description

In order to reconstruct the procurement pattern of lithics in the Moravian/Silesian Gravettian culture and to make a comparison with neighbouring areas, raw material analysis from five Gravettian sites in Moravia/Silesia (Czech Republic) was carried out using stereomicroscopy and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). In Moravia, the characteristic raw material economy of the Gravettian was the import of fine-grained cherts and erratic flints from northern Moravia (and Silesia) or Southern Poland. However, radiolarites from the Pieniny Klippen Belt (present-day Slovakia and Poland) were also used and complemented on sites under the Pavlovske<acute accent> vrchy Hills by local (gravel) materials. Elemental analysis has also confirmed the use of Hungarian radiolarites at Moravian sites. However, these, as well as obsidian from Eastern Slovakia, were rarely used. The contact between Moravia and these two areas (Eastern Slovakia and Hungary) was probably less intensive than with Lower Austria and Southern Poland. Compared to the procurement pattern of the preceding Aurignacian culture, the most striking difference is the longer (and costly) transfers of erratic flints in the Gravettian. These now dominated the lithic material even at sites along the Danube River, 250 km from their sources. This probably correlates with organised provisioning of large, semi-permanent sites and specialised hunting.

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

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-05547S" target="_blank" >GA22-05547S: Reconstruction of Upper Palaeolithic mobility through provenience study of radiolarite artefacts</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

Quaternary International

ISSN

1040-6182

e-ISSN

1873-4553

Volume of the periodical

719

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

109665

UT code for WoS article

001402288600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85215133832