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Neandertals at the bottom of the Dalmatian Dinaric Alps

Dalmatian Dinaric Alps with their peaks up to 1.800 m present natural barriers, but also places people inhabited, visited and crossed. This environment is defined with its geological base, the carst. As today, in the late Pleistocene probably some of these areas were not very suitable for humans to settle around. Geological data, geographical data and position of Middle Paleolithic sites suggest several regions Neandertals inhabited. Presence of the raw material was determined as one factor for selection of a certain area. By the western outer slopes of the Dinaric Alps spreads Eocene and Oligocene sediments where chert nodules can be found, and in that type of environment Middle Paleolithic sites in the hinterlands of Zadar and in area of Kaštela were found. In this paper we will try to establish whether there are some more mutual factors of these two areas that could be important for Neandertals to inhabit these areas.

Neandertals; Dalmatia; Croatia

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