Calowanie

A Final Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic Site on an Island in the Ancient Vistula Channel

edited by Romuald Schild

Book cover: Calowanie

Extent: 376 pages

Publisher: Archeobooks

Subjects: European Prehistory

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(December 2014)

ISBN: 9788363760304

Price: $85.00

Out of stock

The Pekatka Hill of Ca?owanie, a small sandy mound surrounded by the Ca?owanie 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 P?katka 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.

  • Edited by Romuald Schild