Szeletian

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Entrance of Szeleta Cave, Bükk Mountains, Miskolc

The Szeleta Culture is a transitional

Upper Palaeolithic, found in Austria, Moravia, northern Hungary, and southern Poland.[1] It is dated to 44,000 to 40,000 years ago, a period when both Neanderthals and modern humans were present in Europe. Most experts think that it is a Neanderthal culture, but the issue is debated. It is named after Szeleta Cave in the Bükk Mountains in Hungary.[2]

It was preceded by the

BP
).

The initial excavation of the Szeletian cave was carried out from 1906 to 1913 by Ottocar Kadić.[3] The idea of a distinctive Szeletian culture was advocated by the Czechoslovak archaeologist František Prošek (1922–1958).[4]

Range of the Szeletian culture

It has been called the most original and also the most aboriginal Upper Palaeolithic culture in Central Europe.[5] The findings are often interpreted in terms of the contemporaneity of Neanderthal and modern man, "as the product of acculturation at the boundary of Middle and Upper Paleolithic."[6]

Lithic industry

The

lithic industry
is characterized by:

Later assemblages contain endscrapers and retouched blades. [4]

Sites

In addition to the Szeletian cave in Hungary, assemblages have been found in Dzierzyslaw and Lubotyń (Poland),[7] at Čertova Pec in Slovakia, and at Pod Hradem (Moravia).[4][8]

References

  1. ^ Adams B., 1998: The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Central Europe: The Record from the Bükk Mountain Region. BAR International Series 693, Oxford. 175 pp.
  2. ISBN 978-1-108-49206-5
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  3. ^ Kadic, Ottocar. Ergebnisse der Erforschung der Szeletahöhle. na, 1916.
  4. ^ a b c "Szeletian". Archaeology Wordsmith. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. ^ Oliva, Martin. "The Szeletian in Czechoslovakia." Antiquity 65, no. 247 (1991): 318-325.
  6. ^ Allsworth-Jones, Philip, 2004. The Szeletian revisited. Anthropologie (1962-), 42(3), page 292.
  7. ISBN 9782913745520
    . Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Uniwersytet Rzeszowski.
  8. ^ Valoch, K. (1990). La Moravie il y a 10 000 ans. Actes du Colloque International de Nemours, 1988: Paléolithique moyen récent et Paléolithique supérieur ancien en Europe. Ruptures et transitions: examen critique des documents archéologiques, Mémoires du Musée de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France, 3. Nemours: Ed. A.P.R.A.I.F. pp. 115–124, 4 fig.
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