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Abstract
A research project aimed at thorough description of the large Upper Paleolithic (Pavlovian) site clusters around Pavlov and Dolní Věstonice, southern Moravia, Czech Republic, has analyzed the lithic industry of Pavlov I (excavated in 1952). The raw materials were imported from distances of about 100 km (radiolarite) and more than 120 km (various “flints“);, the radiolarite, the scarcer of the two, seems to have been processed more economically than the flints. Closer outcrops of various Moravian cherts, intensively utilized by other groups, apparently were avoided by the Pavlovians. Long-distance acquisition of raw material suggests mobility along the axis between the North European Plain, through the narrow Moravian Gate, and the Danube valley.
It seems probable that the duration of the various occupations at sites like Pavlov I or Dolní Věstonice I was longer than at Pavlov II or Dolní Věstonice II. The Pavlovian sites are no longer regarded as large “villages” however.,but rather as horizontal clusters of single settlement units, which may not be contemporary. Comparison of these individual horizontal units shows slight typological variation.