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Eastern Central Europe during the Pleniglacial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Alexander Verpoorte
Alexander Verpoorte*
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Faculty of Archaeology, University Leiden, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands (Email: A.Verpoorte@arch.leidenuniv.nl)
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Abstract

New dating of several key sites in eastern Central Europe refines our view of human presence there around the Last Glacial Maximum. The author shows that, with the advancing Ice Age, this part of Europe was abandoned later than the west, and a critical environmental factor was increasing aridity rather than the dropping temperatures.

Keywords

Upper Palaeolithiceastern Central EuropechronologyPleniglacialbiogeography
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 300 , June 2004 , pp. 257 - 266
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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