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Problem of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic interface in the eastern Adriatic region

In recent years, the work on Palaeolithic sites in the eastern Adriatic region has been intensified and several Middle and Late Upper Palaeolithic sites were excavated. However, sites from the Early Upper Palaeolithic are rare in this region and there is a chronological gap between the Late Middle and the Early Upper Palaeolithic. Further, not a single industry from any site of the eastern Adriatic region shows a progressive or transitional nature, and there is no evidence of in situ transition at any site in this region. The possible reasons for this situation are: insufficient level of research, flooding or abrasion as a result of the rising of the sea level, low population density in the eastern Adriatic during the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition and the early Upper Palaeolithic, Neandertal population had disappeared from this region before the arrival of the first anatomically modern humans (Papagianni 2009), Neandertals were late inhabitants in several niches in the eastern Adriatic (Šošić Klindžić et al. 2014), which were avoided by anatomically modern humans. These possible reasons will be discussed in the light of the new research funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.

late Middle Palaeolithic ; early Upper Palaeolithic ; interface ; Adriatic

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