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Pupićina Cave Project: Brief Summary of the 1998 season

This report presents preliminary results from the fourth field season of the Pupićina Cave Project.We continued excavating over a large area in Pupićina Cave. Results from the 1998 season clarified the stratigraphy of the later prehistoric (Neolithic-Iron Age) deposits and produced significant Mesolithic and Late Upper Palaeolithic assemblages from the site. Test excavations at Klanjčeva Cave, Nugljanska Cave, and the open-air site of Kotle demonstrated human use of all three sites during the Mesolithic and/or Upper Palaeolithic. Kotle is the first open air Mesolithic site to have been excavated in Croatia. Renewed site testing at Vela Cave revealed a deep and rich sequence of prehistoric through Medieval-age deposits. Studies of the artifacts, faunal assemblages, and environmental remains from these and other sites excavated by the Pupićina Cave Project are providing important new results about changing landscapes and people from the end of the Palaeolithic to the present day in Istria.

anthropology; archaeology; excavation; mesolithic; prehistory; rock-shelter

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