@article{1711e1d51a69485f80be4c77581933e2,
title = "The hunting of horse and the problem of the Aurignacian on the central plain of Eastern Europe",
abstract = "The archaeological record of the early Upper Paleolithic on the central plain of Eastern Europe yields evidence for the repeated hunting of horses in small herds. Several major sites contain large bone beds that represent the butchered remains of a mare band. The bone beds are consistently associated with expedient tools, often made on local raw materials, that are typical of mass kill sites and carcass-processing areas in other settings (for example, North American Plains). Many of these sites may have been occupied by people related to the Aurignacian technocomplex, which otherwise is poorly represented on the central East European Plain, their industrial affiliation obscured by the profusion of expedient tools (often classified as Middle Paleolithic types) related to mass-processing of horse carcasses.",
keywords = "Aurignacian, Eastern Europe, Kill-butchery sites, Zooarchaeology",
author = "Hoffecker, {John F.} and Holliday, {Vance T.} and Stepanchuk, {V. N.} and Lisitsyn, {S. N.}",
note = "Funding Information: This paper was originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology in “Crossing Frontiers of Disciplines and Countries: A Symposium Honoring Eileen Johnson” on 7 April 2016. The research was supported by NSF grants BCS-0132553, BCS-0442164, and BCS-0715519; Leakey Foundation 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2015 general grants; National Geographic Society scientific research grant 8528-08; and multiple grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The authors are grateful to many colleagues in Ukraine and Russia with whom they collaborated on research at the sites described in this paper, including the late M.V. Anikovich and the late V.V. Popov, as well as A.E. Dudin, G.M. Levkovskaya, N.I. Platonova, A.A. Sinitsyn, and L.L. Zaliznyak, as well as colleagues who identified the horse remains from the sites described here, including A. Brug{\`e}re, N.D. Burova, I.E. Kuz'mina, P.V. Puchkov, E.V. Syromyatnikova, and O.P. Zhuravlev. Funding Information: This paper was originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology in “Crossing Frontiers of Disciplines and Countries: A Symposium Honoring Eileen Johnson” on 7 April 2016. The research was supported by NSF grants BCS-0132553 , BCS-0442164 , and BCS-0715519 ; Leakey Foundation 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2015 general grants; National Geographic Society scientific research grant 8528-08 ; and multiple grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The authors are grateful to many colleagues in Ukraine and Russia with whom they collaborated on research at the sites described in this paper, including the late M.V. Anikovich and the late V.V. Popov, as well as A.E. Dudin, G.M. Levkovskaya, N.I. Platonova, A.A. Sinitsyn, and L.L. Zaliznyak, as well as colleagues who identified the horse remains from the sites described here, including A. Brug{\`e}re, N.D. Burova, I.E. Kuz'mina, P.V. Puchkov, E.V. Syromyatnikova, and O.P. Zhuravlev. Funding Information: This paper was originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology in ?Crossing Frontiers of Disciplines and Countries: A Symposium Honoring Eileen Johnson? on 7 April 2016. The research was supported by NSF grants BCS-0132553, BCS-0442164, and BCS-0715519; Leakey Foundation 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2015 general grants; National Geographic Society scientific research grant 8528-08; and multiple grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The authors are grateful to many colleagues in Ukraine and Russia with whom they collaborated on research at the sites described in this paper, including the late M.V. Anikovich and the late V.V. Popov, as well as A.E. Dudin, G.M. Levkovskaya, N.I. Platonova, A.A. Sinitsyn, and L.L. Zaliznyak, as well as colleagues who identified the horse remains from the sites described here, including A. Brug?re, N.D. Burova, I.E. Kuz'mina, P.V. Puchkov, E.V. Syromyatnikova, and O.P. Zhuravlev. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.044",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "492",
pages = "53--63",
journal = "Quaternary International",
issn = "1040-6182",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}