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Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe

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This chapter presents some new data on, and interpretations of the Croatian Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic. Alternative interpretations of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic interface in Vindija cave (situated in the Zagorje region of northwestern Croatia) are reported, together with preliminary results of research on the early Upper Paleolithic site of Bukovac pećina (situated in the region of Gorski kotar), and the late Dalmatian Middle Paleolithic sites of Mujina pećina, Velika pećina in Kličevica and Kaštel Štafilić—Resnik. The archaeological assemblage (Mousterian industry) and the results of chronometric dating make the sequences of these Dalmatian sites contemporary with late Neandertals and with the earliest known anatomically modern human groups in Europe. This recent research greatly contributes to our understanding of the distribution of Neandertals and the complexity of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic interface.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the organizers of the Symposium (Human Evolution in the Southern Balkans), particulary to our colleague Katerina Harvati for inviting us to contribute to both the conference and to the edited volume. The results presented in this chapter in part stem from the projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (130-0000000-0871), Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia (Kaštel Štafilić and Velika pećina in Kličevica) and Croatian Science Foundation. Field work was also supported by the University of Wyoming, Illinois State University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences—University of Zagreb and Zadar County. We are also indebted to our colleagues Katerina Harvati, Mirjana Roksandic and three anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments, making this a better chapter.

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  2. Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA

    Ivor Karavanić

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Karavanić, I. et al. (2016). Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe. In: Harvati, K., Roksandic, M. (eds) Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0874-4_10

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