Editor: Jarosław WILCZYŃSKI (2015)

A Gravettian Site in Southern Poland - Jaksice II

132 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-83-61358-68-8

In March 1912, west of the village Jaksice, on the bank of the Wisła River, opposite the mouth of the Raba River, L. Kozłowski and W. Kuźniar discovered an important Paleolithic site. A lens of mixed gray bone ash, bone fragments and single flint artefacts was discovered at a depth of about 6 meters below the ground surface in a loess exposure eroded by a local stream. In late autumn 2010, almost 100 years after the discovery by L. Kozłowski and W. Kuźniar, new work was undertaken at the presumed location in Jaksice. Current systematic excavations were carried out 2011-2014, covering an area of 39 sq m, and uncovering lithic artefacts, mammal remains (mainly reindeer and mammoth), as well as a few ivory tools and shell beads. The fieldwork has provided a most interesting Late Gravettian lithic inventory, quite different from what we know from the Kraków Spadzista site, and has led to new research on the diversity of Late Gravettian lithic inventories in Central Europe.