http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=275 Publications de Auteurs Dušan Mihailović fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3376 In this work direct evidence is presented about spirituality in the late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic in the Balkans: engraved and perforated objects of bone and artifacts of rock crystal but also all indicators that bear witness to cultural identity of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic communities and their interrelations. Within Neanderthal communities graphic expression, aesthetic feelings and high level of technical intelligence are ascertained. Development of the Upper Palaeolithic on local foundations and social integration of local communities occurred only after 40,000 years ago, by all appearances after contact with bearers of Upper Palaeolithic cultures. This is confirmed by exchange of raw materials at larger distances and emergence of leaf-shaped points in the Bohunician and Aurignacian. It is assumed that the Upper Palaeolithic in the Balkans spread along main natural communications and was followed by withdrawal of the Middle Palaeolithic population in the isolated mountainous regions of the peninsula. There are indications that between local communities and bearers of Upper Palaeolithic cultures existed not only economic and territorial, but also social and ideological competition based on the need of communities to establish and impose their own identity. This phenomenon could have influenced the establishment of stylistically discernible Upper Palaeolithic cultures (regardless of their bearers) and indirectly also the emergence of Upper Palaeolithic art. Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:50:02 +0200 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:50:12 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3376 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=1549 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:12:20 +0100 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:28:53 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=1549 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=274 Recent investigations in Serbia and Montenegro have filled the gap in our knowledge of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in the Balkans providing us with a better understanding of the factors which influenced the appearance of the earliest Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes in this region. In contrast to the east Balkans, the continuity between Middle and Upper Palaeolithic do exist when it concerns the inhabiting of primary ecological zones but it could not be followed when technology and settlement pattern are concerned. The dating of Šalitrena cave has revealed that Vindija cave can no longer be regarded as an isolated example of the late Neanderthal occupation in the west of the Balkans and that there are strong possibilities that Neanderthals survived in the western Balkans and the interior of the Dinarides somewhat longer than in other parts of the peninsula. We posit that the volcanic eruption before 40 ka which resulted in the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) tephra deposition, could have had a more significant impact on the Adriatic zone where Middle Palaeolithic population density was the greatest, but had no long-term effect in the northeast part of the peninsula. We suggest that there was a temporal trend in the spread of the Upper Palaeolithic from the east to the west of the Balkans and that the Danube corridor had a significant role in its distribution. We dispute statements that the CI tephra covered the Upper Palaeolithic at several sites in the central Balkans and call into question the conclusion that there was evidence for the existence of Upper Palaeolithic communities in this area before the eruption. Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:41:18 +0100 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:41:26 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=274