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Książka w języku angielskim                                                                                                                 The Pękatka Hill of Całowanie, a small sandy mound surrounded by the Całowanie Moor, a large expanse of wetlands filling a Late Glacial fossil Vistula Valley, is a place where artifacts of nearly 40 Final Paleolithic occupation units lay buried in alluvial and dune sands and peat bogs. Most of the units were left by small groups of the Stone Age hunter-gatherers making uncountable and recurrent visits to the same spot, drawn by many attractions of the contiguous areas. The Pękatka Hill preserved a 5000-year long dormant record of their world.

The present book, offered to the gracious readers, attempts to put together all the information gathered during many years of excavations, field and lab work and writing. Changing environments, lithology and the dynamics of sediment deposition on the hill and in the surrounding marshes is quite well mirrored by the functional makeups of flint tool kits and spatial histories of core processing, tool repair, and discard. It also tells us that the seasonality of landscape use and, therefore, camping was the major name of the game in those remote times as well as throughout all of prehistory.

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PREFACE

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CHAPTER I. Introduction

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References

CHAPTER II. Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Paleoecology and Radiochronology

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Introduction

General Geomorphic Setting and Macro-Stratigraphy. An Overview

Micro-Stratigraphy

References

CHAPTER III. Archaeological Materials

Romuald Schild, Dagmara Mańka, Halina Królik and Maria Marczak

Level I

Level II

Level III

Level IV

Level IVa. Old Tanged Point (OTP) Assemblage

Level IVb. Arch Backed Piece Technocomplex

Level V

Level VI

Levels VII and VIII

Varia

References

CHAPTER IV. Functional Analysis of Selected Flint Assemblages

Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska

Introduction

Assemblages with Arched Backed Pieces and Endscrapers (Arch Backed Pieces Technocomplex)

The Younger Tanged Point Assemblage

References

CHAPTER V. Masovian Camp Organization in Cut I as Seen From the Perspective of Lithic Artifacts Refitting

Jan Fiedorczuk

Introduction

Methods and Results of Refitting

Settlement Structures in Sites of the Masovian Complex Features

Spatial Relationships Between Identified Structures

Structure Systems vs. Occupation Episodes, or the Spatial Organization of Campsite

Conclusions

References

CHAPTER VI. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Vegetation History and Use of Plant Foods in the Middle Vistula River Valley at Całowanie

Lucy Kubiak-Martens and Kazimierz Tobolski

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Interpretation of Pollen Record (L PAZ) and Chronology

Interpretation of Plant Macrofossil Records (L MAZ)

Vegetation History of the Site Area Through the Occupation Phases

Plant Foods in Subsistence of the Site Dwellers

Conclusions

References

CHAPTER VII. A Synthesis

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The Place of the Taxonomic Lithic Entities from Całowanie in the Final Paleolithic of Poland

The Pękatka Hill Settlement

References

INDEX