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<< Our Photo Pages >> Predmosti - Ancient Village or Settlement in Czech Republic in Moravia

Submitted by durhamnature on Tuesday, 13 November 2012  Page Views: 5153

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Predmosti Alternative Name: Předmostí
Country: Czech Republic Region: Moravia Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Prerov
Latitude: 49.467000N  Longitude: 17.437000E
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Predmosti submitted by durhamnature : Mammoth carved on an ivory tusk, with fine detail, from archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Prehistoric settlement in Moravia.
An important prehistoric settlement in Moravia, excavated from 1884 to 1930, but the finds were lost during the 1939-1945 war. Re-excavated in the 1990s, with several burials found. Settlement assessed as a Cro-Magnon site (Gravettian toolmaking culture) from between 24 and 27,000 years ago.

There are three separate sites clustered around limestone outcroppings. Finds included burials and animals remains of both hunter's prey and their "paleo dogs." Sites in the area that can be visited include the modern "Monument to Mammoth Hunters" information signage area that appears to have been built over one of the sites and may be open allowing views of the excavation and an artistic "Well of Prehistory" monument. Limestone formations near the sites are also marked.

Note: Research indicates Paleo Dogs may have been used to transport goods, and not as hunting dogs for Mammoth Hunters. See comment.
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Predmosti
Predmosti submitted by Thorgrim : Highly stylised female figure engraved on a mammoth tusk. Predmosti is an open-air Palaeolithic site on the Becva river in Moravia, Czech Republic. The site includes the remains of 1,000 individual mammoths dated by radio-carbon to 26,870 bp. There is a mass grave of 20 people and a number of female figurines. The most remarkable is this engraving on mammoth ivory. Highly stylised - it clearl... (7 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Predmosti submitted by durhamnature : Engraved bones from Predmost, from "Der Diluviale Menschen..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Predmosti submitted by durhamnature : View of the other side, from "Anthropologie..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Predmosti submitted by durhamnature : Stylised engraving of a woman, from "Prehistory" by Miles Crawford Burkitt, 1921, via archive.org. One of the original finds. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Humans preferred mammoth to reindeer at 30,000 year old Predmostí site by bat400 on Sunday, 15 March 2015
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Predmosti I is an exceptional prehistoric site located near Brno in the Czech Republic. Around 30,000 years ago it was inhabited by people of the pan-European Gravettian culture, who used the bones of more than 1000 mammoths to build their settlement and create ivory sculptures.

Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment wanted to answer two questions:

Did prehistoric people collect this precious raw material from carcasses – easy to spot on the big cold steppe – or were they the direct result of hunting for food?

This year-round settlement also yielded a large number of canid remains, some of them with characteristics of Palaeolithic dogs. Were these animals used to help hunt mammoths?

To answer these two questions, Tübingen researcher Hervé Bocherens and his international team carried out an analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in human and animal fossil bones from the site. Working with researchers from Brno and Brussels, the researchers were able to test whether the Gravettian people of Předmostí ate mammoth meat and how the “palaeolithic dogs” fit into this subsistence picture.
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They found that humans did consume mammoth – and in large quantities. Other carnivores, such as brown bears, wolves and wolverines, also had access to mammoth meat, indicating the high availability of fresh mammoth carcasses, most likely left behind by human hunters. Surprisingly, the dogs did not show a high level of mammoth consumption, but rather consumed essentially reindeer meat that was not the staple food of their owners. A similar situation is observed in traditional populations from northern regions, who often feed their dogs with the food that they do not like. These results also suggest that these early dogs were restrained, and were probably used as transportation helpers and not necessarily for hunting.

These new results provide clear evidence that mammoth was a key component of prehistoric life in Europe 30,000 years ago, and that dogs were already there to help, but possibly not to hunt.

Thanks to coldrum for the link: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com

Also see the paper, "Reconstruction of the Gravettian food-web at Předmostí I using multi-isotopic tracking (13C, 15N, 34S) of bone collagen," H.Bocherensa, D.G. Druckera, M.Germonpréc, M.Lázničková-Galetovád, Y.I. Naitoa, C.Wissinga, J.Brůžekg, M.Olivae, Quaternary International, Volumes 359–360, 2 March 2015, Pages 211–228, World of Gravettian Hunters. at sciencedirect.com.
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