Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.1.1
Underwater middle Paleolithic site of Kaštel Štafilić – Resnik: lithic perspective
Antonela Barbir
orcid.org/0000-0003-3825-1596
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Zlatko Perhoč
; Mannheim, Germany
Krunoslav Zubčić
; Department for underwater archaeology, Croatian conservation institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivor Karavanić
; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Kaštel Štafilić – Resnik is the first underwater Paleolithic site in Croatia to be systematically investigated. The site is located in the Kaštela Bay in central Dalmatia which, like the rest of the Adriatic Basin, has undergone geomorphological changes caused, among other factors, by marine transgression. Sea level rise at the Pleistocene to Holocene transition destructively affected the Pleistocene strata and caused the submergence of the site. The lithic finds are typologically placed in the Mousterian culture, with the exception of a few finds belonging to the Upper Paleolithic. The paper presents the results of technological and typological analysis of findings collected by I. Svilan in Kaštela Bay and, for the first time, raw material analysis of lithic finds from systematic research but also from the collection of I. Svilan, which confirm that Neanderthals occupied Kaštela Bay during the Middle Paleolithic.
Keywords
underwater archaeology; Paleolithic; Mousterian; lithic analysis; raw material; Kaštel Štafilić – Resnik; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
280986
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Publication date:
28.7.2022.
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