Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The search for fireplaces in Moravian (Czech Republic) Late Glacial sites
AU  - Moník M
AU  -Nerudová Z
AU  - Schnabl P
Y1  - 2020
VL  - 58
IS  - 2-3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 293
EP  - 
KW  - Late Upper Palaeolithic
KW  - Hearths
KW  - GIS analyses
KW  - Colour measurement
KW  - Magnetism (IRM)
N2  - 
N2  - The existence of fire/hearths at Upper Palaeolithic sites is highly expected due to the cold glacial climate.
However, fireplaces/hearths are missing at several Late Upper Palaeolithic Moravian (Czech Republic) sites. Here we
discuss the possibilities of how to identify the presence of fire at archaeological sites using indirect methods. Our
analysis focused on both potentially heated/burned artefacts and spatial distribution of fireplaces from within four
Moravian (Czech Republic) sites. Colour and magnetic measurements may be indicative of heated cherts/flint
recognition but macroscopic visual observation remains key for such estimations. Concerning the distribution of hearths
within the four analysed sites, only Brno-Štýřice III site seems to have witnessed little post-depositional disturbance of
its anthropogenic sediments and, at the same time, shows a good correlation of presumed fireplaces with the distribution
of heated artefacts.
ER  -