Naslov
Middle Paleolithic Land Use in the Northern Adriatic: Preliminary Data from the Open-Air Site of Campanož (Croatia)

Autori
Banda, Marko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
88th Annual Meeting Abstracts / - , 2023, 33-33

Skup
88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology

Mjesto i datum
Portland (OR), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 29.03.2023. - 02.04.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Middle Palaeolithic ; lithic technology ; open-air site ; land use ; Northern Adriatic

Sažetak
The site of Campanož, located in the south of the Istrian peninsula, is a relatively new discovery of the Middle Paleolithic record of Croatia. Because it is a stratified open-air site, its discovery has opened questions regarding Middle Paleolithic land use in a region that has until now been heavily biased toward cave sites. Furthermore, the site is characterized by a large assemblage of chert chunks (more than 100, 000 in 100 m2) with only 5% of the finds classified as artifacts. A sample of the artifact assemblage was previously analyzed technologically, including defining production methods and the assemblage structure according to technological categories. The results are compared to previously published data from other Middle Paleolithic sites in the Adriatic region, as well as some still unpublished data from the Eastern Adriatic in order to highlight the character of land use and raw- material provisioning strategies of the Middle Paleolithic group(s) that occupied the site. The comparison suggests a presence of an expedient lithic technology at Campanož, with proximity to raw-material source(s) comprising a significant factor in this aspect of Middle Paleolithic technological behavior.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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