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JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 117-178Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9115-1
Keywords
Early modern humans; Danube corridor hypothesis; Carpathian Basin; Loess; Early Upper Paleolithic; Aurignacian
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [CRC 806]
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Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin's geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin's archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo)archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.
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