Looking around Pestera Cu Oase: The beginnings of Upper Paleolithic in Romania
Looking around Pestera Cu Oase: The beginnings of Upper Paleolithic in Romania
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DOI：
10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.012
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Baltean, Ion
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作者：
Anghelinu, Mircea;Nita, Loredana;Baltean, Ion
与欧斯洞穴中广泛认可的人类学发现以及罗马尼亚领土对于解剖学上现代人类在欧洲的分散的关键地理位置相比，有关罗马尼亚旧石器时代晚期出现的考古信息对于更广泛的科学界来说仍然知之甚少。罗马尼亚旧石器时代研究长期在理论和方法上的孤立，特别有助于使区域考古学脱离有关欧洲旧石器时代中晚期过渡的主流辩论。它还鼓励大多数罗马尼亚考古学家普遍相信旧石器时代晚期逐渐出现，是从当地莫斯特时代开始的。本文对罗马尼亚考古记录进行了简要审查，据称这些记录属于参与整个欧洲向旧石器时代晚期过渡的主要文化参与者：莫斯特晚期、所谓的“过渡”工业和奥里尼亚克技术综合体。可疑的地层数据和放射性碳采样使人们对南喀尔巴阡洞穴中莫斯特晚期的推测产生了怀疑。 “过渡”工业也要求类似的批评，因为它们要么表现出地层混合（例如 Mitoc-Valea Izvorului），要么根本不属于旧石器时代晚期早期的年代框架（例如 Ripiceni-Izvor“Aurignacian”）。罗马尼亚奥里尼亚克技术综合体的本地起源、广泛分布以及令人惊讶的年轻年代同样受到挑战。除了巴纳特（罗马尼亚西南部）尚未注明日期的事件外，所有有说服力记录的奥里尼亚克时代背景都属于普遍接受的欧洲年代框架，并且与当地莫斯特时代没有特殊联系。 (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd 和 INQUA。版权所有。
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.