Yuri E. Demidenko & Thorsten Uthmeier (eds.)
Kiik-Koba Grotto, Crimea (Ukraine).
Re-Analysis of a Key Site of the Crimean Micoquian
This book is an offshoot of the international Ukrainian-German research programme on "Functional variability in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine" undertaken by the Crimean branch of the Ukrainian Academy of Science and the University of Cologne. It presents one of several complexes from earlier excavations now re-analysed for publication.
Kiik-Koba Grotto is famous for its Neanderthal burials published with special attention to Neanderthal hands in G. A. Bonch-Osmolowski's excavation report. And with Bonch-Osmolowski, an outstanding Palaeolithic archaeologist, the volume starts, followed by a chapter on the history of investigations, and new analytic approaches to the Kiik-Koba Micoquian flint artefacts. Next are techno-typological data and reduction models of the Micoquian flint artefacts from layer IV. Another chapter deals with the original assemblage of this layer and the Crimean Micoquian in general. Attention is also paid to bone retouchers from the upper layer of Kiik-Koba Grotto and to the zooarchaeological analysis of the large mammalian fauna from layer IV. Ultimately, there is an overview of the re-analyses of Micoquian layer IV at Kiik-Koba Grotto.
Hardcover, 281 pages with 65 illustrations and 33 tables
Size 21.0 x 29.7 cm
Price Euro 49.80ISBN: 978-3-86757-363-4
VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH - 2013
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