Late Glacial and Holocene sequences in rockshelters and adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic: Correlation of environmental and archaeological records

0488975 - ARÚB 2018 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Svoboda, Jiří - Pokorný, P. - Horáček, I. - Sázelová, Sandra - Abraham, V. - Divišová, M. - Ivanov, M. - Kozáková, Radka - Novák, J. - Novák, Martin - Šída, P. - Perri, A.
Late Glacial and Holocene sequences in rockshelters and adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic: Correlation of environmental and archaeological records.
Quaternary International. Roč. 465, January 26 2018 (2018), s. 234-250. ISSN 1040-6182. E-ISSN 1873-4553
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-08169S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : Czech Republic * sandstone rockshelters * wetlands * Late Glacial * Holocene * Late Paleolithic * Mesolithic * paleoecology * lithic industries
OECD category: Archaeology; Archaeology (ARU-G)
Impact factor: 1.952, year: 2018

This paper combines complex archaeological records from excavations of sandstone rockshelters with paleobotanical investigations in the adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. Several pollen diagramms from nearby peatbogs are used to document the paleoenvironmental development from the Late Glacial to the Middle Holocene. In addition, two recently excavated key archaeological sections were selected to document human behavioral responses to the climatic development: Kostelni rokle, and Smolny kamen. This region remained mostly unsettled during the Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian or Epigravettian) so that the Late Paleolithic colonization after the LGM appears to be a major behavioral adaptation. The Early and Middle Mesolithic foragers developed this pattern to be optimally adapted to the versatile landscape of sandstone plateaus and canyons during the Holocene. The aim was to exploit its changing vegetational, aquatic and terrestric faunal resources, until the Late Mesolithic.
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