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Stones, shell beads and hunter-gatherers' mobility during Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic - Zala Cave Case Study

Zala Cave is located in the western part of central Croatia in the transitional zone, in a submountain valley, between the eastern Peri-Pannonian and western mountainous Croatia, where the Pannonian Plain is closest to the Adriatic Sea, ca. 50 km as the crow flies from the modern coast. Zala Cave has been excavated between 2005 and 2012. During the course of the excavation long stratigraphic sequence has been recorded including Late Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age/Ancient Roman and Middle Age horizons. In this paper we will present main features of the litihic and perforated snail shells assemblages found in Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic horizons which are dated between ca. 14100 and 9200 uncal bp. Lithic raw material provenance studies and archaeomalacological analysis of shell beads bring data about mobility of hunter-gatherers from Zala Cave and diachronic changes in personal ornaments.

Late Upper Palaeolithic; Mesolithic; mobility; Zala Cave; stones and shell beads

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