LHOTKA I, ÚSTŘEDNÍ STANICE EPIAURIGNACIENU NA VÝCHODNÍ MORAVĚ.

Lhotka I site yielded one of the most original assemblages of the Upper Palaeolithic chipped industry in Central Europe. The site is situated in the very middle of an important settlement area of the Aurignacian. The raw materials are dominated by erratic flint, the second place in the group of retouched tools belongs to the chocolatetype silicite from the Holy Cross Mts. in Poland, approximately 300 km distant. Therefore, the main supply area of the site was located towards the north. The Lhotka collection can be compared to Epi-Aurignacian assemblages with greatly imbalanced spectrum of formal tools, in which Aurignacian (and, in general terms, polyhedral) burins usually considerably prevail, and only in the case of Lhotka this applies to high nosed (and very narrow) endscrapers (representing nearly a half of all retouched tools). It cannot be assumed that such a numerous collection comes from some kind of special activity. Rather, it testifies to stable occupation that required all of the usual activities. These findings can also be related to other assemblages that tend to be separated out from the Aurignacian framework just because they perhaps represent specialized workshops producing blanks and functioning within other cultural traditions (such as “Aurignacian V”, Bockstein-Törle VI etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]