Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Early Aurignacian Industry from Vedrovice II (Southern Moravia) and the Question of the Aurignacian Origins
AU  - Oliva M
Y1  - 1989
VL  - 27
IS  - 2-3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 251
EP  - 264
KW  - Vedrovice II
KW  - Early Aurignacian
KW  - Polycentric evolution
N2  - 
N2  - The site Vedrovice II lies directly above the former brickworks, the loess walls of which contained a few artefacts in a stratigraphic position under the interpleniglacial soil. The chipped industry from surface collections and trenches (which proved the existence of the single finding layer) is identical: the prevalent implements are burins (including Aurignacian forms) and side scrapers. Blades are very rare in spite of the fact that a special blade method of core reduction was known. The industry as a whole lacks further analogies even in the sites situated, as in case of Vedrovice II, in the region with raw material sources.
In Europe there are several Aurignacian-like assemblages of a mutually different character and probably of a different origin more than 35 000 years old. This is the reason why the author expresses his hypothesis about the polygenetic origin of the Aurignacian in several independent centres.
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