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Bramka Rockshelter: an Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura

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dc.abstract.enAlthough multiple Mesolithic cave sites have been recognised in Europe, the use of such sites by Early Holocene hunter gatherers was extremely scarce north of the Carpathians. Single Mesolithic artefacts have been found thus far only in six cave sites in Poland. The rich Early Mesolithic assemblage found in Bramka Rockshelter in southern Poland seems to be quite extraordinary in such a context. The site was excavated over 50 years ago, but the results have never been published or analysed beyond a short mention of child burial found in the Mesolithic context. The paper presents new radiocarbon dates obtained for the Mesolithic occupation and the child burial, showing the Early Holocene chronology of the Komornician assemblage and the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age chronology of the burial. The assemblage’s techno-typological analysis allowed us to identify six human occupation phases at the site, with the most intensive phase connected to the Mesolithic. Comparative analyses of other Mesolithic assemblages from the region, together with an extremely high percentage of debitage found in the Bramka Rockshelter assemblage, allow us to discuss the possibility of identifying the site as a knapping workshop located in the vicinity of Jurassic flint outcrops.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorBerto, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorWojenka, Michał
dc.contributor.authorKrajcarz, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorSzymanek, Marcin
dc.contributor.authorWertz, Krzysztof
dc.contributor.authorKrajcarz, Maciej
dc.contributor.authorHoyo, Magdalena Moskal - del
dc.contributor.authorGryczewska, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorJaskulska, Elżbieta
dc.contributor.authorSzeliga, Marcin
dc.contributor.authorFedorowicz, Stanisław
dc.contributor.authorPilcicka-Ciura, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorKot, Małgorzata
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T18:54:50Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T18:54:50Z
dc.date.copyright2021-09-22
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.accesstimeBEFORE_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume610
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/J.QUAINT.2021.08.015
dc.identifier.issn1040-6182
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/102507
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618221004511
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationearth and related environmental sciences
dc.relation.ispartofQuaternary International
dc.relation.pages44-64
dc.rightsOther
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enEarly Holocene
dc.subject.enKomornician
dc.subject.enCave archaeology
dc.subject.enSettlement pattern
dc.subject.enKrak´ow-Częstochowa Upland
dc.titleBramka Rockshelter: an Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura
dc.typeJournalArticle
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