The Middle Aurignacian in the Carpathian Basin of Eastern Central Europe

Abstract

Abstract. In the article a series of Middle Aurignacian in situ sites and surface loci situated in the Carpathian Basin of the Eastern Central Europe is analysed using industrial and geochronological criteria recently developed for the respective Middle Aurignacian materials in Southwestern France. As a result, there were not only recognized the respective materials for the Carpathian Basin but were also identified both common and specific techno-typological features for taken together Pan-European Middle Aurignacian materials. Geochronologically, the Carpathian Basin’s sites (starting from GI-8a, ca. 36,300 cal. BP) are a little younger of the French materials (GI-8c, ca. 37,900 – 37,500 cal. BP). The realized study also demonstrated a possible series of various site types for Middle Aurignacian settlement pattern observations in the Carpathian Basin. The resulting analyses also allowed us to see on the new data and knowledge levels a basic Middle Aurignacian human dispersal from Europe into the East Mediterranean Levant.