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<p>The Late Gravettian Moravany-Podkovica site is famous for the discovery of the female figurine known as the Venus of Moravany in the 1920–1930s. The site from which it is thought to have originated is located in the prehistoric settlement area of Moravany nad Váhom in western Slovakia. The eastern slopes of the village of Moravany, located in the heart of a micro-region with favourable climatic conditions created by local geothermal springs, have yielded more than a dozen open-air sites, found on the surface or within loessic deposits, and dating from the Szeletian, Gravettian and Epigravettian periods. The rediscovery of old excavation archives and recent work on reorganising and studying the available collections have informed our planning of renewed excavations at Podkovica. Our work has made it possible to reconstruct several archaeological collections, which are now providing new information that contextualises new multidisciplinary fieldwork aimed at revaluating the remaining potential of the site. Here, we present a brief history of research at Podkovica and the Moravany region, and set out to clarify the history and the stratigraphy and chronology of the site and its collections, as well as giving an overview of our technical study of the lithic collections. Finally, the Podkovica data are placed in the wider context of Late Gravettian shouldered point assemblages of Central Europe in order to consolidate our understanding of this key period before the Last Glacial Maximum, which remains poorly documented in Slovakia.</p>

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A Comprehensive View of the Late Gravettian Site with Shouldered Points at Moravany-Podkovica (Western Slovakia)

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    2026年3月19日

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  • Bibiana Hromadová,
  • Adrián Nemergut,
  • Anaïs Vignoles,
  • Martina Moravcová Ábelová,
  • Martin Vlačiky,
  • Laurent Klaric

摘要

The Late Gravettian Moravany-Podkovica site is famous for the discovery of the female figurine known as the Venus of Moravany in the 1920–1930s. The site from which it is thought to have originated is located in the prehistoric settlement area of Moravany nad Váhom in western Slovakia. The eastern slopes of the village of Moravany, located in the heart of a micro-region with favourable climatic conditions created by local geothermal springs, have yielded more than a dozen open-air sites, found on the surface or within loessic deposits, and dating from the Szeletian, Gravettian and Epigravettian periods. The rediscovery of old excavation archives and recent work on reorganising and studying the available collections have informed our planning of renewed excavations at Podkovica. Our work has made it possible to reconstruct several archaeological collections, which are now providing new information that contextualises new multidisciplinary fieldwork aimed at revaluating the remaining potential of the site. Here, we present a brief history of research at Podkovica and the Moravany region, and set out to clarify the history and the stratigraphy and chronology of the site and its collections, as well as giving an overview of our technical study of the lithic collections. Finally, the Podkovica data are placed in the wider context of Late Gravettian shouldered point assemblages of Central Europe in order to consolidate our understanding of this key period before the Last Glacial Maximum, which remains poorly documented in Slovakia.