Composition of a floor from an Upper Paleolithic skeletal grave : a case from Dolni Vestonice (Moravia, Czechia, Central Europe)
author:
Wesełucha-Birczyńska Aleksandra , Trąbska Joanna, Oliva Martin
journal title:
Vibrational Spectroscopy
title of volume:
Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS-6) and Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy (2DCOS-6) Sonoma County, CA, USA, 9–17th June 2011
Dolní V
̆
estonice is a complex of sites, with a broad range of information about Early Modern Humans
and the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian), with regard to technology, art, faunal, site and human remains.
Dolní V
̆
estonice is located near the town of Brno in the region of Moravia, Czech Republic. The subject of
our interest covers a floor of a grave niche, from the site Dolní V
̆
estonice I. Raman micro-spectroscopic
research pointed at presence of hematite in the several selected randomly from the burial bed samples.
Raman spectroscopy seems to be a useful tool for processing analyses of microdimensional archeological
objects.