Tytuł projektu: Late Pleniglacial environmental changes and hunter-gatherer societies in the Western Carpathians.

Fellow: dr György Lengyel

This project has received funding from the European Union' s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778. NCN agreement No. UMO-2016/23/P/HS3/04034.

Among the many possible interpretative methods, understanding the archaeological record through the lens of dynamic glacial environmental changes can be among the most dependable. Among the most studied periods in Palaeolithic archaeology is the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) some 24,000 years ago which brought the coldest environment to the Western Carpathians of the last 120,000 years. the LGM, Late Gravettian people were highly mobile and foraged around the Western Carpathians. By the LGM the Epigravettian hunters moved their sites to the Carpathian basin, reduced mobility and hardly foraged across the mountains. With the climatic amelioration, the site density in the Carpathian basin became thinner and the Epigravettian hunters recommenced long range mobility the mountains and changed their lithic tools, as well. The aim of this research is to test whether the formation of the archaeological record of the Western Carpathians in the Late Pleniglacial is significantly affected by prey animal ecology.

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