Stranska Skala: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Moravia, Czech Republic (American School of Prehistoric Research Series, Bulletin 47: Dolni Vestonice Studies, Volume 10)
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by Jiri A. Svoboda
Stranska Skala: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Moravia, Czech Republic (American School of Prehistoric Research Series, Bulletin 47: Dolni Vestonice Studies, Volume 10) FROM THE PUBLISHER In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars--Czech and American archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, geologists, and biologists--report on the results of the investigations from 1980 through the 1990s at Stránská skála, a complex of open-air loess sites on the outskirts of the Brno Basin in the Czech Republic. The volume presents in-depth studies of the geology, paleopedology, frost processes, vegetation, fauna, and archaeological features of Stránská skála that break new ground in our understanding of early modern humans in central Europe.
SYNOPSIS Findings from excavations at the site from 1910 to 1999 are synthesized with an eye to settling the rivalry between two major hypotheses about the emergence of modern humans and the demise of the Neanderthals about 20-30,000 years ago along the middle and upper Danube River. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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