Szeletian
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thumbnail|right|Entrance of Szeleta Cave, Bükk|Bükk Mountains, [[Miskolc, Hungary]] The Szeleta Culture, or Szeletian, is a transitional archaeological culture between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Palaeolithic, found in Austria, Moravia, northern Hungary, and southern Poland. It is dated to 44,000 to 40,000 years ago (up to 35,000 years ago according to some scholars), a period when both Neanderthals and modern humans were present in Europe. Most experts think that it is a Neanderthal culture, but the issue is debated. It is named after Szeleta Cave in the Bükk Mountains in Hungary, th
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thumbnail|right|Entrance of Szeleta Cave, Bükk|Bükk Mountains, [[Miskolc, Hungary]] The Szeleta Culture, or Szeletian, is a transitional archaeological culture between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Palaeolithic, found in Austria, Moravia, northern Hungary, and southern Poland. It is dated to 44,000 to 40,000 years ago (up to 35,000 years ago according to some scholars), a period when both Neanderthals and modern humans were present in Europe. Most experts think that it is a Neanderthal culture, but the issue is debated. It is named after Szeleta Cave in the Bükk Mountains in Hungary, though other prominent sites include Dzierżysław in Poland and Vedrovice V in Moravia.
It was preceded by the Bohunician (48,000–40,000 BP), and is roughly contemporary with the Aurignacian (43,000–26,000 BP) in France, the Uluzzian (45,000–37,000 BP) in Italy, and the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (starting around 45,000 BP) in parts of Britain, Germany, and Poland. It was succeeded by the Gravettian (33,000–21,000 BP).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Szeletian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.