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Hunters between East and West

The Paleolithic of Moravia

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Authors:
  1. Jiří Svoboda

    1. Academy of Sciences, Brno-Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic

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  2. Vojen Ložek

    1. Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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  3. Emanuel Vlček

    1. National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 1-14

  3. Pleistocene Paleoenvironments

    • Vojen Ložek
    Pages 15-36

  4. Patterns of Human Evolution

    • Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 37-74

  5. Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 75-97

  6. The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 99-130

  7. Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 131-170

  8. Western Invasion

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 171-194

  9. Creating Settlement Networks

    • Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček
    Pages 195-204

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 205-311
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About this book

At first glance, the archaeological record of Moravia has been quite visible in the Anglophone world. Bits and pieces of this record have repeatedly made headlines in both the general and the specialized press for close to a century. First, it was the discovery of a mass grave of some 21 individuals found at the Upper Paleolithic site of Pfedmosti, then the oldest evidence for ceramic technology reported in the first quarter of this century in the Illustrated London News. Later on, the site of Petfkovice, dating some 23,000 B. P. , produced evidence for the oldest burning of coal for fuel, while more recently the New York Times informed us that imprints in clay at Pavlov I attest to the oldest evidence for the making and use of textiles. This list of cultural innovations documented from Moravia can be expanded to include the use of ground stone technology to make stone pendants (e. g. , at Pfedmosti), oflarge ground-stone rings whose use remains enigmatic (e. g. , at Bmo II, Predmosti, and Pavlov I)-but which if found in more recent contexts would pass as querns-as well as of possible needles (again at Predmosti).

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`[T]his must-have book dispels the information gap about one of the most archaeologically significant places on earth.'
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`An authoritative synthesis of the pertinent Moravian data....chapters rightfully contain many provocative hypotheses about human evolution, adaptations, and behavior during the Pleistocene....a most important addition to our literature.'
from the Foreword by Olga Soffer, University of Illinois, Urbana

Authors and Affiliations

  • Academy of Sciences, Brno-Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic

    Jiří Svoboda

  • Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vojen Ložek

  • National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

    Emanuel Vlček

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hunters between East and West

  • Book Subtitle: The Paleolithic of Moravia

  • Authors: Jiří Svoboda, Vojen Ložek, Emanuel Vlček

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0292-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45250-5Published: 30 September 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0294-8Published: 30 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0292-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 311

  • Topics: Archaeology

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