S14A



S14A

Room 2.122

Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe / Avant, pendant et après le grand épisode sec : explorer l’occupation gravettienne et épigravettienne de l’Europe

Session organizers: Philip R. Nigst, Marjolein D. Bosch, Soňia Boriová, Martin Novák, Laëtitia Demay, Samuel Kasemann

S14A, Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 15:50, Room 2.122

9:00-9:20 - Before, During and After the Cold: the Impact of the LGM on Human Life-ways. / Marjolein D. Bosch, Soňa Boriová, Martin Novák, Laëtitia Demay, Samuel Kasemann & Philip R. Nigst

9:20-9:40 - The Epigravettian in the Eastern Adriatic: insights on the settlement and symbolic behaviour from Badanj rockshelter / Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, Marc Vander Linden, Virginia Barciela & Nikola Vukosavljević

9:40-10:00 - A systematic-synthesis assessing the impact of changing climatic conditions on fire use adaptations across Upper Paleolithic Europe / William C Murphree, Katarína Adameková, Javier Sánchez-Martínez & Godefory Louis François Devevey

10:00-10:20 - Upper Palaeolithic subsistence and territorial strategies in the Dniester and Prut valleys (Republic of Moldova) / Laëtitia Demay, Sergei Covalenco †, Theodor Obadă, Viorica Pascari †, Afanasie Prepeliţa, Vitalie Burlacu, Marie-Anne Julien, Pierre Noiret † & Stéphane Péan

10:20-10:40 - Human and natural environment of the Upper Palaeolithic site Buzhanka 2, Ukraine / Alina Stupak, Dmytro Stupak, Tetiana Kotsur, Maryna Komar, Yevhenia Nezdolii & Viktoria Polska

10:40-11:00 - Subsistence strategies of Upper Palaeolihic human groups in the Desna Basin (Dnieper tributary) / Laëtitia Demay, Dmytro V. Stupak, Alina Stupak, Diana Dudnyk, Martina Lázničková-Galetová & Stéphane Péan

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Animal Exploitation during the Last Glacial Maximum: Zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal assemblage of Korman’ 9 (Ukraine) – a small finds perspective / Anna Wagner, Marjolein D. Bosch, Domnika Verdianu, Stefanie Stelzer, Lukas Waltenberger, Larissa Kulakovska, Vitaly I. Usyk, Olesia Kononenko, Paul Haesaerts, Stéphane Pirson, Karen Ruebens & Philip R. Nigst

11:50-12:10 - Mammoth age structure at a Late Gravettian site in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic): Preliminary results and possible interpretations / Soňa Boriová, Marjolein D. Bosch, Dominik Chlachula, Hannah H. Moots, Juliana Larsdotter, David Díez-del-Molino, Jarosław Wilczyński & Petr Lissek

12:10-12:30 - Faunal Composition at the Gravettian Site Complex of Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria) / Caterina Aureli, Anna Wagner, Walpurga Antl-Weiser, Caroline Posch, Philip R. Nigst & Marjolein D. Bosch

12:30-12:50 - Weapons from osseous raw materials from the Epigravettian layers at Vlakno cave (Croatia) / Selena Vitezović & Dario Vujević,

12:50-13:10 - Discrimination Of Central- And East-European Flints Used In The Gravettian Of Slovakia / Martin Moník, Martin Novák, Zdeňka Nerudová, Lucia Debnárová & Vitaly Usik

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - SIMILAG: ‘Sites of the Middle and Late Gravettian in Central Europe’. A database for chronological, paleoenvironmental and lithic cultural data / A. L. Vignoles, P. R. Nigst, M. D. Bosch, M. Novák, B. Hromadová, T. Devièse & A. Challier

14:50-15:10 - What is the Status of the Gravettian Sites of the Wachau Region (Austria)? / Samuel Kasemann, Thomas Einwögerer, Caroline Posch, Hannah Rohringer & Philip R. Nigst

15:10-15:30 - LGM climatic oases in Moravia/ Petr Škrdla

15:30-15:50 - New insights on stratigraphy and site formation processes at Milovice IV site (Czech Republic) / Katarína Adameková, William Chase Murphree, Dominik Chlachula, Marie Hořenínová & Martin Novák