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Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic human fossils from Moravia and Bohemia (Czech Republic): some new 14C dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jiří A. Svoboda ,
Johannes van der Plicht  and
Vítězslav Kuželka
Jiří A. Svoboda
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, ASCR, Department of Paleolithic and Paleoethnology, Brno—Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic
Johannes van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Groningen University, Center for Isotope Research, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
Vítězslav Kuželka
Affiliation:
National Museum, Department of Anthropology, Václavské nám. 68, 120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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Abstract

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New radiocarbon dates from four Moravian and Bohemian sites are presented and linked to previous work on the depositional contexts of human fossils at similar sites in the region. Whilst dates from Mladeč confirm its early Upper Palaeolithic age, the chronologies of the other three sites require revision.

Keywords

radiocarbon datingUpper PalaeolithicMesolithicMoraviaBohemia
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News & Notes
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 294 , December 2002 , pp. 957 - 962
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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