Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Mamaia Sat (Romania): a Late Middle Pleistocene Palaeolithic Site?
AU  - Balescu S
AU  - Tuffreau A
AU  - Dobrescu R
Y1  - 2015
VL  - 53
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 157
EP  - 166
KW  - Middle Palaeolithic – Loess – Luminescence dating – Late Middle Pleistocene – Romania
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N2  - The multi-stratified Palaeolithic site of Mamaia Sat site, located north of Constan?a (Dobrogea) was discovered by K. Valoch and J. Jelínek. It includes two intraloessic archaeological layers which have been assigned to the Last Interglacial (MIS 5.5) and the Early Last Glacial (MIS 5.3–5.1). The lithic material is characterised by discoid
debitage together with a few pieces also showing Levallois debitage. Side-scrapers are the most common flake-tools. The presence of foliate tools is an original feature of this material. In this paper, the chronological context of the Mamaia Sat site is reassessed in the light of recent luminescence (IRSL) dating results obtained on loess from the nearby reference loess-palaeosol sequences of Tuzla and Mircea Vod? in Dobrogea. At Mamaia Sat, we have evidence for human occupation during at least two successive Middle Pleistocene interglacial periods prior to the Last Interglacial, which could reasonably be correlated with MIS 7 and MIS 9.
ER  -