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Brînzeni: A Multidisciplinary Study of an Upper Palaeolithic site in Moldova
Brînzeni cave occupies an important place in the Palaeolithic of Moldova. Its significance is reconsidered in the light of work carried out at the site in 1992–1993 and subsequently, and the opportunity is taken to bring together both published and previously unpublished reports about it, to shed light on its environmental history and archaeological characterisation. On current evidence, the principal occupation layer occupies a chronologically intermediate position between the Aurignacian and the Gravettian in the region, and the archaeological assemblage is certainly distinctive, although probably not ‘transitional’ in the sense previously claimed.McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridg
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The Middle Palaeolithic site of Buzdujeni in Moldova: establishing the archaeological and environmental record. Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology
The work carried out at the site of Buzdujeni in 1993, and the subsequent study of the material, is described. The archaeological inventory, classified as a Denticulate Mousterian, is published in detail for the first time. Sedimentological, micromorphological, and palynological studies have enabled a convincing reconstruction of the development of the environment through time to be achieved. The human occupation of the site took place in periglacial conditions, which likely correspond to the last (Valdai) glacial period, though more exact dating of the site remains to be achieved.British Academy
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