History of Research at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro, 1954–2016

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This is an abstract from the "The Late Middle Paleolithic in the Western Balkans: Results from Recent Excavations at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The rockshelter of Crvena Stijena has been well-known for over 60 years as one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the Balkan Peninsula. Discovered in 1954, its excavations in the ensuing decade by renowned Yugoslavian prehistorians revealed a continuous cultural sequence over 20 m deep, containing deposits from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, Mesolithic, Upper Paleolithic, and Middle Paleolithic. The excavations from 1954 to 1964 were fully published in 1975 in a scientific, multidisciplinary monograph. In 2004, research at the site was resumed by a joint University of Michigan–Center of Archaeological Investigations of Montenegro team, which carried out an absolute dating program, clarified the geological history of the site, and began to excavate, with modern methods, the Middle Paleolithic deposits. The results of this project were published in a monograph in 2017 that summarizes the research of over a dozen specialists on the cultural remains, macrofaunal and macrobotanical remains, chronology, and geological studies at the site. The scientific results of this project and the removal of massive layers of sterile deposits overlying the Middle Paleolithic layers in 2014 made the current project formed by the University of Minnesota and the National Museum of Montenegro, which began in 2017, feasible.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Late Middle Paleolithic in the Western Balkans: Results from Recent Excavations at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36723.0