Pavlovian culture

The Pavlovian is an Upper Paleolithic culture, a variant of the Gravettian, that existed in the region of Moravia, northern Austria and southern Poland around 29,000 – 25,000 years BP. The culture used sophisticated stone age technology to survive in the tundra on the fringe of the ice sheets around the Last Glacial Maximum. Its economy was principally based on the hunting of mammoth herds for meat, fat fuel, hides for tents and large bones and tusks for building winter shelters.[1][2]

Its name is derived from the village of Pavlov, in the Pavlov Hills, next to Dolní Věstonice in southern Moravia. The site was excavated in 1952 by the Czechoslovakian archaeologist Bohuslav Klima. Another important Pavlovian site is Předmostí, now part of the town of Přerov.

Excavation has yielded flint implements, polished and drilled stone artifacts, bone spearheads, needles, digging tools, flutes, bone ornaments, drilled animal teeth, and seashells. Art or religious finds are bone carvings and figurines of humans and animals made of mammoth tusk, stone, and fired clay.[3] Textile impression made into wet clay give the oldest proof of the existence of weaving by humans.[4]

Notes
  1. http://www.anthropark.wz.cz/pavlova.htm The Gravettian Of Moravia – The Pavlovian and the Willendorf-Kostenkian] Website of the Academy of Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic. Author and Illustrations Libor Balák, 2013,
  2. Pavlovian Paul Legan, Archaeology Wordsmith, 2013
  3. Pavlov The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979)
  4. Balak - Textiles


gollark: And after the panic-buying began there was, well, not much food available, so it made (makes?) *some* sense to buy some when it is.
gollark: There was a possibility (probably still is, and I imagine it's happened some places) of supply chains failing to get food to sale fast enough.
gollark: I don't think it's stupidity as much as possibly excessive self-interest causing panic buying.
gollark: Probably also to keep children away from parents, now.
gollark: And also encourage conformity and rule-following.

References
  • Grigor’ev, G. P. Nachalo verkhnego paleolita i proiskhozhdenie Homo sapiens. Leningrad, 1968.
  • Filip, J. Enzyklopädisches Handbuch zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Euro-pas, vol. 2. Prague, 1969.
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