http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=460 Publications de Auteurs Thomas C. Hauck fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=901 Since 2009 the German Albanian Palaeolithic project (GAP) examines two open-air and three cave sites in different parts of Albania. The data obtained allow a first assessment of the potentials as well as challenges posed by these archives. While evidence for human occupation in the postglacial period and subsequent Holocene is plentiful, older traces are still scanty. Multiple factors are responsible for this bias of which to mention above all is climatic impact and postglacial landscape modification. Two cave sequences in the northern part of Albania show a reworking or erosion of MIS 3 and older deposits. Disturbance of open-air sites in the coastal lowlands is principally caused by weathering and sediment aggradation. While such observations are important for future research strategies, the preserved Palaeolithic sequences already provide the basis for a robust Palaeolithic database. It bears a rich and well-preserved record of Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations. Our investigations give a first insight into human land-use shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum. We thereby add important data to the growing record of Epigravettian and Mesolithic sites in the wider scope of the Eastern Adriatic. Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:06:52 +0100 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:07:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=901 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=581 After more than 80 years of Yabrud II rock-shelter excavations by A. Rust in Syria, the site’s Levantine Mousterian and Early Upper Paleolithic archaeological sequence does not have yet a unanimous archaeological interpretation. The present paper tries to propose new understanding for the sequence and, as a result, it appears to be of a “dotted line” character with no continuity at all except the layer 5-2 Levantine Aurignacian A / Phase 3 industry sequence. The latter industry is suggested to have its origin in a specific facies of Southern Levantine Early Ahmarian and being then transformed into Levantine Aurignacian B / Phase 4 industry, a possible “industrial starting point” for European Proto-Aurignacian. “Leaving aside for the moment the chronological approach, let us try something rather different. Wherever the place of origin of the Aurignacian may be, we ought in that region to find an earlier culture stage from which it could have developed” (Garrod 1953:32). Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:04:12 +0100 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:24:17 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=581 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=469 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:55:56 +0100 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:56:04 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=469 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=458 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:45:43 +0100 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:45:59 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=458 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=229 During the 1983 UISPP congress in Liège, F. Mogoșanu presented the results of his earlier investigations on the Paleolithic in the Romanian Banat. The Upper Paleolithic of this area was viewed as a chronologically late manifestation of the Central European Krems-Dufour type Aurignacian. After a long break in research, new investigations in the settlements at Coșava, Româneşti-Dumbrăviţa and Tincova have been undertaken, leading to an improved knowledge of the regional Upper Paleolithic. The present contribution reports the first results of the comparative techno-typological and attribute analysis of the lithic assemblages at Tincova, Coșava and Româneşti-Dumbrăviţa, involving both old and recently excavated collections. Strengthening the conclusions reached by the lithic studies, the first chronometric assessments (TL and OSL) for the recently excavated open-air site of Româneşti-Dumbrăviţa I place the Aurignacian of this site into an early stage of this technocomplex. However, the attempt for incorporating the regional record into the European Early Upper Paleolithic context remains difficult and raises serious issues regarding the acknowledged divisions of the European Aurignacian and, consequently, the expansion of this cultural phenomenon across Europe. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:44:59 +0100 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:53:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=229