Upper Paleolithic of Middle Dniester: Doroshivtsi III site. (2nd March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kulakovska, L.; Usik, V.; Haesaerts, P.; Ridush, B.; Uthmeier, Thorsten; Hauck, Thomas C.
• Is Part Of: Quaternary international. Volume 359/360(2015)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 361
• Publication Date: 2015-03-02
• Subjects: Middle Dniester -- Doroshivtsi III -- Upper Paleolithic -- Loess site -- Industry -- Gravettian/epi-Gravettian; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary -- Periodicals; Stratigraphie -- Quaternaire -- Périodiques; 551.79
• DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.10.034
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1040-6182

Abstract

Abstract: As a result of excavations of the Doroshivtsi III open-air site in the Middle Dniester region, seven Upper Paleolithic cultural levels were discovered in the 12 m thick loess profile. With the exception of level 1 with very few artifacts, all other cultural levels could be determined as Gravettian. The richest collections belong to level 3 and 6. Level 6 is dated to 22, 330 ± 100 BP, and represents an original UP industry with shouldered points, a small amount of burins, and numerous backed tools made mainly on microblades. Doroshivtsi III, together with Molodovo V (level 7 and 8) and Zamostya I with shouldered points in the tool-kit, which are usual, was named "atypical" previously. However, they represent a sub-type of this specific kind of tool, giving evidence of the originality of Dniester Gravettian industries, and their distinction from the Willendorf-Pavlov-Kostenki group.