Valéry Sitlivy, Aleksandra Zięba, Krzysztof Sobczyk and Alexandr Kolesnik
The Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Księcia Józefa open-air Site (Krakow, Poland): Lithic Technology and Spatial Distribution
The Ksieza Josefa open-air site in Krakow illustrates the time of the latest Middle Palaeolithic and the Earliest Upper Palaeolithic around 40,000 years ago in Southern Poland.
Throughout the whole sequence, human activities are dominated by the production of stone artefacts which is documented at unique preservation and high spatial resolution allowing for intensive refitting of the silex nodules exploited. If, at the lower occupation surface, every single nodule was really exploited by one (Neanderthal) person at one time, then there are dozens of episodes representing a wide variety of technical recipies applied by different craftsmen or craftswomen. In the upper layers, lithic recipies changed into patterns usually known as "Upper Palaeolithic" ones; herein, typologically indicative tools are, however, missing.
The authors opened up one of the most detailed windows into the technological and spatial behaviour at a "time of transition". This "time of transition" saw the replacement of the latest Neanderthals by the earliest modern humans in Europe – one of the major topics of the Cologne-Bonn-Aachen CRC 806.
Paperback, 556 pages, 945 figures (some in colour) and numerous tables
Size 21.0 x 29.7 cm
Price Euro 119.00ISBN: 978-3-7749-3894-6
Aus dem Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität zu Köln – SFB 806 'Our Way to Europe'
Verlag Habelt, Bonn 2014
