Fülöp Éva – Cseh Julianna szerk.: „Die aktuellen Fragen des Mittelpaläolithikums in Mitteleuropa”. „Topical issues of the research of Middle Palaeolithic period in Central Europe”. Tata, 20-23 October 2003. (Tudományos Füzetek 12. Tata, 2004)
Jan Michal Burdukiewicz–Andrzej Wisniewski: New Evidence of Middle Palaeolithic in South Poland
Authors of research are inclined to link the material with the Micoquian, looking for close analogies to sites such as Mesvin IV. 10 The same region recently furnished an Acheulean hand axe. 11 The site in question lies in the vicinity of the village of Owsiszcze, in the river valley of the Przykopa, in the upper reaches of the Odra valley (fig. 9.). The specimen was discovered on the eastern slope of the valley of Przykopa. Excavation produced several score artefacts contained in fluvioglacial sediments of the Odranian glaciation, buried under Weichselian loess. It is highly probable that the hand axe had a similar stratigraphie position, which may be related to the Lublinian interglacial, possibly the Wartanian glaciation. The hand axe was fashioned from an oblong nodule of erratic flint. According to the F. Bordes system it represents a variant of amygdaloid hand axes with a blunted base (fig. 9., 10.), Its length, width and thickness are 14.6, 9.6 and 4,2 cm respectively; its weight is 420 g. A similar specimen was discovered at Konradówka in south-eastern area of the Silesian-Lusatian Lowland. Two other hand axes discovered in Silesia originate from Bohuslavice and Polanka on the Odra (the Czech sites are located at a distance of just 6 to 23 km from Owsiszcze). One of the pieces is a cordiform hand axe, the other a Faustkeilblatt. Hand axes from Owsiszcze and Konradówka in their size and shape have close analogies among the large hand axes known from East Germany (Weddersleben, Zschorna and Naumburg), The North Polish Complex (Eemian, Weichselian —OIS 5 ) The largest sequence of layers containing Middle Palaeolithic artefacts from the period coinciding with the Eemian interglacial and the Weichselian glaciation was discovered at Bisnik Cave. Assemblages recorded as A x and A 2 , detected in layers of sandy clay or loamy sands (13 and 12), included artefacts representing —in K, Cyrek's view —Acheulean assemblages with the Levallois technique. Assemblage A x is associated with traces of fire-making (hearth?). Accumulation of the layers in question occurred in a period of temperate and humid climate, while the presence of woodland fauna indicates a link with the Eemian interglacial. Layers of sandy clay / loamy sands (layers 10-11) contained a small number of finds - assemblage B/C (fig. 11,1-6.)—which may be a part of the inventory recorded in the overlying stratum. The upper layer 9, and partly layer 8, contained artefacts included in assemblage D. The layers were both sandy clay and loamy clays. 12 According to K. Cyrek, 13 assemblage D has features common with the Taubachian. The layer which contained assemblage D, found at the entrance to the cave, produced traces of fire10 FAJER et al. 2001, 51. 11 BURDUKIEWICZ 1999. 12 MlROStAW-GRABOWSKA 2002, 169. 13 CYREK 2002, 50. 138
