Break vs. continuity: Techno-cultural changes across the LGM in the Eastern Carpathians

摘要: Abstract A major impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on East-Central European Upper Paleolithic (UP) demographic and cultural adaptation is now largely acknowledged. Archaeologically, basic trend leading to a fragmentation Gravettian technocomplex emergence increasingly regionally-focused paleo-cultural units also generally agreed upon. Higher-resolution regional syntheses remain, however, only means validating continental-scale tendencies. Here, we focus previously underreported archaeological record Romanian Eastern Carpathians, which host consistent network UP sites occupied in timeframe LGM. The many located Bistrița river terraces display highly similar litho-stratigraphic sequences comparable successions layers are therefore particularly prone synthetic survey. Based recently updated chronometric support, selected sample 12 lithic assemblages from six illustrate diachronic changes potentially related LGM groups. In terms raw material provisioning, mobility techno-typological patterns, sharp contrast marked between Late subsequent early Epigravettian. This shift visible at peak LGM, around 24 ka cal BP, indicates an increased Carpathians.