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Anghelinu, Mircea ORCID: 0000-0002-0317-4415, Nita, Loredana, Sitlivy, Valery, Uthmeier, Thorsten ORCID: 0000-0003-1265-061X and Baltean, Ion (2012). Looking around Pestera Cu Oase: The beginnings of Upper Paleolithic in Romania. Quat. Int., 274. S. 136 - 158. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-4553

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Abstract

In contrast to the widely acknowledged anthropological finds in Oase Cave and to the key geographical position of Romanian territory for the assumed dispersion of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe, the archaeological information regarding the emergence of the Upper Paleolithic in Romania remains poorly known to a broader scientific community. The prolonged theoretical and methodological isolation of the Romanian Paleolithic research has particularly contributed to keeping the regional archaeology out of the mainstream debates regarding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. It has also encouraged the widely held belief of most Romanian archaeologists in the gradual emergence of the Upper Paleolithic, initiated from the local Mousterian. The present paper puts forward a brief examination of the Romanian archaeological record allegedly belonging to the main cultural actors involved in the transition to the Upper Paleolithic across Europe: the Late Mousterian, the so-called transitional industries, and the Aurignacian technocomplex. Doubtful stratigraphical data and radiocarbon sampling feed skepticism regarding the supposed Late Mousterian occurrences in the Southern Carpathian caves. The transitional industries ask for a similar criticism, as they either display stratigraphical mixing (e.g. the Mitoc-Valea Izvorului), or simply do not belong to the Early Upper Paleolithic chronological framework (e.g. the Ripiceni-Izvor Aurignacian). The local origin, the wide dispersal, and the surprisingly young chronology of the Aurignacian technocomplex in Romania are equally challenged. With the exception of the yet undated occurrences in Banat (Southwestern Romania), all the convincingly documented Aurignacian contexts belong to the generally accepted European chronological framework and show no particular connection to the local Mousterian. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Anghelinu, Mircea UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-4415 UNSPECIFIED Nita, Loredana UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sitlivy, Valery UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Uthmeier, Thorsten UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1265-061X UNSPECIFIED Baltean, Ion UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-481631
DOI:	10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.012
Journal or Publication Title:	Quat. Int.
Volume:	274
Page Range:	S. 136 - 158
Date:	2012
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-4553
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MODERN HUMANS; HUMAN-BEHAVIOR; HUMAN REMAINS; AURIGNACIAN; MIDDLE; EUROPE; DATES; NEANDERTHALS; REVOLUTION; ORIGINS Multiple languages Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/48163