MATERIALE ŞI CERCETĂRI ARHEOLOGICE (serie nouă), SUPPLEMENTUM 1, 2021, p. 141-182. THE AURIGNACIAN IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN OF EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPE AND ITS PROTO-AURIGNACIAN INDUSTRY TYPE
Yuri E. DEMIDENKOab, Petr ŠKRDLAc, Béla RÁCZa, Adrián NEMERGUTd, Sándor BÉRESe
a Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Berehove, Ukraine e-mail : yu. e. demidenko@ gmail. com ; adarats@ gmail. com b Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine e-mail : yu. e. demidenko@ gmail. com c Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic e-mail : ps8a@ seznam. cz d Institute of Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovak Republic e-mail : adrian. nemergut@ savba. sk e Independent Researcher, Budakalász, Hungary e-mail : sberes1956@ gmail. com
“ La Bataille Aurignacienne” will probably never end (rephrasing Zilhão, d''Errico 1999)
Introduction
With all possible reservations on the presence of chronologically preceding Initial Upper Paleolithic (hereafter UP) techno-complexes in Europe (e. g. Bohunician, Szeletian, Châtelperronian, Uluzzian, and Streletskian/“ Eastern Szeletian”), the Aurignacian is really the first full-fledged UP techno-complex on the Continent with exclusively UP technological and typological features, while the Initial UP techno-complexes always bear some clear Middle Paleolithic (hereafter MP) or Middle Stone Age (hereafter MSA) technological and/ or typological elements. Moreover, the Aurignacian is usually regarded as representing the Homo sapiens spread into the “ European Neanderthal
