Editors: Piotr WOJTAL, Jarosław WILCZYŃSKI, Gary HAYNES (2015)

A Gravettian Site in Southern Poland - Kraków Spadzista

205 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-83-61358-72-5

The Kraków Spadzista site is one of the most important and recognisable sites of Gravettian settlement in Poland. Excavations began in 1967, and continued with several breaks until 2013, encompassing various parts of this vast site. Thanks to these excavations, plentiful traces have been discovered of an Upper Palaeolithic settlement, predominantly represented by Gravettian materials. The most recent fieldwork began in the summer of 2011 at the site, and initiated an exceptionally intensive research stage that has produced abundant archaeological and paleontological discoveries. Originally, this volume was intended to present the results of the 2012 research in the Kraków Spadzista E1 area. However, owing to the multitude of analyses conducted on the materials obtained during the most recent field research and the older excavations, as well as the fact that the representatives of various scientific disciplines were engaged in this work, the scope of this publication has been expanded considerably. Consequently, we have abandoned our previous practice of publishing our research results in the form of a concise monograph dedicated to a single part of a site. The collected texts form the present volume, which describes and interprets materials discovered during 50 years of archaeological research at one of the most important Upper Palaeolithic sites in Poland.