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Pradel, 1961). Since 2006, a multidisciplinary research team examines the former collection, alongside new

excavations on the site. Occupied during the Upper Magdalenian and Azilian (calBC 13000-11500), the de-

posits delivers abundant lithic industries, bone industries, faunal remains and ornaments. According with a

major program of

C dating, sedimentological and environmental analysis, and the new data on Late Glacial

environmental and cultural contexts of the region, the archaeological sequence of Les Douattes is a major

site at the crossroads of Europe Magdalenian, as shows the origin of int and ornaments artefacts. The

poster we propose present the rst results of interdisciplinary studies. Nearly a century after its discovery

and thanks to a new dynamic created by a multidisciplinary team, the rockshelter of Les Douattes could be

an important site to discuss the evolution of the Magdalenian in Western Europe.

Andrej Mihevc*, Anton Velušček**

Neolithic drawings from cave Bestažovca, W Slovenia

Bestažovca is 250 m long and 45 m deep cave. The cave is located near the top of the small hill on the pla-

teau Kras about 10 km from the coast of the Trieste bay in altitude 460 m (45°41’34.92”N, 13°53’30.22”E).

At the entrance to the cave there are two deep shafts that lead to the main part of the cave. This consists of

about 150 m long and about 10 m wide nearly horizontal passage. In this passage the rock art was found.

The passage was in past accessible through another cave, today just a large abri Perkova pečina. The traces

of visits of prehistoric people, a replace with charcoal and ashes, pieces of charcoal which is remnant of

torches, bones and Neolithic pottery are preserved on the surface of the passage oor. The connection

between the caves was later closed due to the sediment creep caused mostly by frost heaving. Present cli-

matic conditions in the main passage are stable, mean annual temperature is about 9° C, and oscillations of

temperature and humidity are small.

Cave paintings consist of drawings made with red ochre on the walls and black dots on the passage ceiling.

There are 32 red lines or dots preserved on three different places of the main passage. Some of them are only

remnants and we can not dene their original shape. They were washed by drip or condense water or covered

with ne white calcite crystals. The drawings are covering only very small proportion of the cave walls.

Largest group of drawings consists of 23 dots and lines. Strait vertical lines prevail. Probably they were

made by ngers soaked in red dye. The longest, 31 cm high splits in lover part to two branches. Some of the

lines have double width and they also splits at the lower part. Most likely they were made by two ngers. On

another two pannels there are less drawings and only four of them are fully preserved. There is a drawing in

a shape of a lying letter L. In another part of passage there is a drawing of one and a group of three iden-

tical V shaped symbols inclined to left for about 45°.

Near the main panel are on the cieling of the passage about 35 scattered, rather irregular black dots. They

were made by at least 1.5 m long torches or burned stics. Besides drawings there are on three places re-

mnants of grass or some another plants that were on purpose placed where drip water deposited on them

thin layer of kalcite and preserve their shape.

Radiocarbon dating of one of the black dots, of a piece of charcoal from a replace and a piece of charcoal

of a torch show narrow time span of about 500 years, between 6730 – 7289 BP which matches with the age

of pottery. Soon after that the entrance closed completely and create conditions that preserved the drawings.

The drawings from Bestažovca cave present at the moment the only known Neolithic cave art this time in

the wider area of Dinaric mountains and neigbouring Alps.

✉ * Karst research institute ZRC SAZU, Titov trg 2, SL-6230 Postojna, Slovenia, [email protected]

** Institute of Archaeology, ZRC SAZU Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Anton.V[email protected]

Christopher Miller

, Paul Goldberg

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, Shannon McPherron

, Michel Lenoir

A geoarchaeological investigation of site formation processes at the MTA site of Abri Peyrony, SW-

France

Abri Peyrony (Haute de Combe Capelle) is one of several localities at the site of Combe Capelle in the

Perigord region of southwestern France. The site has a long history of excavation, extending back to the

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