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Ciemna Cave is a key Micoquian site located in Ojcow National Park, in the southern part of the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland. The site is known for a distinct group of asymmetrical knives, pradniks,as well as the associated cultural assemblage, the "Pradnik industry"or "Micoquo-Prondnikiens"-both named after the Pradnik stream flowing through the valley. Excavation of Ciemna Cave carried out in the early twentieth century provided a series of stratified archaeological materials. The published sections indicated explicitly diverse sequences and contexts in various parts of the site. In Ogrojec (sector CO), a collapsed part of the cave, two cultural layers were recognized within loess deposit: an upper layer with Pradnik industry implements and a lower layer with Pradnik industry artifacts and mixture of older cultural units, including those with handaxes. A different situation was encountered at the entrance to the cave (sector C), where a much longer stratigraphic section with a few artifactually poor cultural levels was discovered. Current excavations began in 2007 targeted a new area of the cave chamber, with a primary goal of correlating geologic and cultural sequences from the previous excavations. At this stage a complete section has been exposed, which comprises 19 major geological layers and 9 archeological levels. The area has provided new lithics finds and chronological data that have allowed us to make preliminary cultural linkages.
- 出版日期2014-4-1
