PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fridrich, Jan
AU  - Fridrichová-Sýkorová, Ivana
AU  - Tyráček, Jaroslav
TI  - An Upper Acheulian occupation site on a palaeomeander of the River Vltava at Dejvice
DP  - 2010 Jun 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 40--56
VI  - 26
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/sp.2010.1.03
IS  - 02316056
AB  - From prehistoric archaeological view Dejvice Prague quarter belongs to sites, which repeatedly bring new evidence about the life of our earliest ancestors. Archaeological excavations undertaken by the authors on the building site of National technical library found artefacts and other archaeological evidence, which can be dated to the early Middle Palaeolithic at around 250 000 B. P., which is the earliest human evidence in the Dejvice and inner Prague area. Although several stratigraphical separate groups of finds belong to a single cultural domain, settlement geographical evaluation of the position of the finds enables a very probable case for two settlement phases on the riverside of the Vltava palaeomeander by middle Palaeolithic hunters. Archaeological characteristics of finds assemblages and other data are preceded by the first comprehensive evaluation of geological development of the ancient Vltava river Palaeomeander system in Dejvice. Geological, morphological and archaeological data combine in a synthesis shedding light on the genesis of the finds and the topographical situation of the settlement in the early Middle Palaeolithic.