Jiří Svoboda
Biographic Data
| ID | 78011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiří Svoboda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiří |
| FAMILY NAME | Svoboda |
| SIGNATURE | SVOBODA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Researcher at the Archeologicky Ustav, Brno, Czechoslovakia. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0614-7954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 391 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic
A wolf from Gravettian site Pavlov I, Czech Republic
Last Glacial Maximum landscape and Epigravettian horse hunting strategy in Central Europe
With the end of MIS3, the unity of larger Gravettian settlements based predominantly on mammoth exploitation split into a mosaic of smaller Epigravettian sites with specific behaviors and economies. Based on C14 chronology, the site of Stránská skála IV (together with Grubgraben, Ságvár and Kašov), correlates with a brief warm period after the Last Glacial Maximum around 22 ka calBP. We detected two main accumulations of predominantly horse bones…
Carnivores in the everyday life of Gravettian hunters-gatherers in Central Europe
Insights into human life in Central Europe at ~30–20,000 years ago have come from studies of archaeological and paleontological materials in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia, including assemblages from sites such as Dolní Věstonice I and II, Pavlov I, Kraków Spadzista, Jaksice II, and Moravany–Lopata II. Pavlovian mammal bone assemblages from settlements in South Moravia are dominated by small (birds, hares, foxes) and medium sized animals (wolves, …
Friend or foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context
In this paper we discuss recent claims that dogs were first domesticated from wild wolves in the Middle Upper Paleolithic (MUP), about 27 ka BP. According to our data, we think the presence of large canids at the Pavlovian/MUP sites is a result of hunting specialization and not a sign of an early process of dog domestication. Our interpretation is supported by the following observations, whose implications we discuss: (1) Pavlovian faunal assembl…
Human and non‐human taphonomic effects on faunal remains from the Late Upper Paleolithic
This paper focuses on two accumulations of horse bones at the Stránská skála IV site, dated from around the Last Glacial Maximum (Epigravettian). Osteological material was subjected to taxonomical and taphonomical analyses. The results confirmed the prevalence of horses, and quantitative analyses indicated a minimum of 10 individuals, which is the approximate size of a herd. The taphonomical analyses did not confirm any traces of human activities…
Between Bilzinbsleben and Vértésszölös
Pieces of people in the Pavlovian
The rich earlier Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Pavlovian) sites of Dolní Vĕstonice I and II and Pavlov I (∼32,000-∼30,000 cal BP) in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) have yielded a series of human burials, isolated pairs of extremities and isolated bones and teeth. The burials occurred within and adjacent to the remains of structures ('huts'), among domestic debris. Two of them were adjacent to mammoth bone dumps, but none of them was directly associa…
Late Glacial and Holocene sequences in rockshelters and adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic
At the edge
On landscapes, maps and Upper Paleolithic lifestyles in the central European corridor
En el contexto de los debates recientes sobre las capacidades humanas modernas relativos a la conciencia del tiempo y del espacio, la planificación y la caza organizada, este artículo presenta tres grabados gravetienses sobre colmillos de mamut y placas de marfil de los yacimientos de Pavlov y Předmostí en Europa central, sugiriendo sus posibles interpretaciones como «mapas» y/o «planes de caza»
Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
A charcoal record of Holocene woodland succession from sandstone rock shelters of North Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Dolní Věstonice IIa
Patterns of Change in a Nenets Landscape
New technologies for plant food processing in the Gravettian
Předmostí III
Enamel thickness variation of deciduous first and second upper molars in modern humans and Neanderthals
A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes
Art gravettien de Pavlov I et VI
Structure de l’art pavlovien La région de Dolní Věstonice – Pavlov – Milovice forme un exemple typique d’une aire de chasseurs gravettiens (pavloviens) densément occupée, montrant une hiérarchie interne pour ce qui concerne l’importance et la taille des sites. Jusqu’à présent, la présence d’objets d’art était limitée aux vastes sites d’agrégation qui résultent d’activités humaines répétées en un seul endroit et présentent des palimpsestes de réoc…
Gravettian Art of Pavlov I and VI
Structure of Pavlovian art The Dolní Věstonice – Pavlov – Milovice area in south Moravia forms a typical example of a densely settled Gravettian (Pavlovian) hunters’ area, showing an internal hierarchy in terms of importance and size of the sites. Until now, occurrence of art objects was limited to large aggregation sites that resulted from repeated human activities at one place, and represent palimpsests of intensive reoccupations (Pavlov I, Dol…
Plant foods in the Upper Palaeolithic at Dolní Vӗstonice? Parenchyma redux
The classic image of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Europe envisages them hunting large mammals in largely treeless landscapes. That is partly due to the nature of the surviving archaeological evidence, and the poor preservation of plant remains at such ancient sites. As this study illustrates, however, the potential of Upper Palaeolithic sites to yield macrofossil remains of plants gathered and processed by human groups has been underest…
Resources and spatial analysis at actual Nenets campsites
Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing
European Paleolithic subsistence is assumed to have been largely based on animal protein and fat, whereas evidence for plant consumption is rare. We present evidence of starch grains from various wild plants on the surfaces of grinding tools at the sites of Bilancino II (Italy), Kostenki 16–Uglyanka (Russia), and Pavlov VI (Czech Republic). The samples originate from a variety of geographical and environmental contexts, ranging from northeastern …
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]
Burning wood or burning bone? A reconsideration of flotation evidence from Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) sites in the Moravian Corridor
New technologies for plant food processing in the Gravettian
Fowling during the Gravettian
The depositional context of the Early Upper Paleolithic human fossils from the Koněprusy (Zlatý kůň) and Mladeč Caves, Czech Republic
Enamel thickness variation of deciduous first and second upper molars in modern humans and Neanderthals
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition
The Upper Paleolithic triple burial of Dolní Věstonice
This work focuses on paleopathological analysis of one of the skeletons from the Gravettian triple burial of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia) and addresses issues of Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior. The burial includes the well‐preserved skeletons of three young individuals. The skeleton in the middle (DV 15) is pathological and very problematic to sex; the other two (DV 13 and DV 14) are males and lie in an unusual position. The young age, the poss…
A new male burial from Dolní Věstonice
Carnivores in the everyday life of Gravettian hunters-gatherers in Central Europe
Insights into human life in Central Europe at ~30–20,000 years ago have come from studies of archaeological and paleontological materials in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia, including assemblages from sites such as Dolní Věstonice I and II, Pavlov I, Kraków Spadzista, Jaksice II, and Moravany–Lopata II. Pavlovian mammal bone assemblages from settlements in South Moravia are dominated by small (birds, hares, foxes) and medium sized animals (wolves, …
Plant foods in the Upper Palaeolithic at Dolní Vӗstonice? Parenchyma redux
The classic image of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in Europe envisages them hunting large mammals in largely treeless landscapes. That is partly due to the nature of the surviving archaeological evidence, and the poor preservation of plant remains at such ancient sites. As this study illustrates, however, the potential of Upper Palaeolithic sites to yield macrofossil remains of plants gathered and processed by human groups has been underest…
The Pavlov Site, Czech Republic
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 th…
Resources and spatial analysis at actual Nenets campsites
Pavlov VI
This newly discovered and excavated site defines an Upper Palaeolithic activity unit consisting of a roasting pit at the centre of an area 5m across. Although the main task was the processing of two mammoths, there were numerous other wild animals in the assemblage. The occupants used flint knives, made bone tools and modelled in baked clay - on which they left their fingerprints, along with imprints of reindeer hair and textiles. Pavlov VI offer…
Předmostí after 110 Years
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Předmosí (Czech Republic) is located at the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate, which is an important communication route in Central Europe. During 110 years of investigation, this site has yielded an immense number of artifacts, paleontological materials, human fossils, and art. Important parts of the archaeological and anthropological material were destroyed in 1945, but the illustrations are publish…
Friend or foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context
In this paper we discuss recent claims that dogs were first domesticated from wild wolves in the Middle Upper Paleolithic (MUP), about 27 ka BP. According to our data, we think the presence of large canids at the Pavlovian/MUP sites is a result of hunting specialization and not a sign of an early process of dog domestication. Our interpretation is supported by the following observations, whose implications we discuss: (1) Pavlovian faunal assembl…
Last Glacial Maximum landscape and Epigravettian horse hunting strategy in Central Europe
With the end of MIS3, the unity of larger Gravettian settlements based predominantly on mammoth exploitation split into a mosaic of smaller Epigravettian sites with specific behaviors and economies. Based on C14 chronology, the site of Stránská skála IV (together with Grubgraben, Ságvár and Kašov), correlates with a brief warm period after the Last Glacial Maximum around 22 ka calBP. We detected two main accumulations of predominantly horse bones…
Předmostí III
Between Bilzinbsleben and Vértésszölös
Pieces of people in the Pavlovian
The rich earlier Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Pavlovian) sites of Dolní Vĕstonice I and II and Pavlov I (∼32,000-∼30,000 cal BP) in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) have yielded a series of human burials, isolated pairs of extremities and isolated bones and teeth. The burials occurred within and adjacent to the remains of structures ('huts'), among domestic debris. Two of them were adjacent to mammoth bone dumps, but none of them was directly associa…
On landscapes, maps and Upper Paleolithic lifestyles in the central European corridor
En el contexto de los debates recientes sobre las capacidades humanas modernas relativos a la conciencia del tiempo y del espacio, la planificación y la caza organizada, este artículo presenta tres grabados gravetienses sobre colmillos de mamut y placas de marfil de los yacimientos de Pavlov y Předmostí en Europa central, sugiriendo sus posibles interpretaciones como «mapas» y/o «planes de caza»
Patterns of Change in a Nenets Landscape
Predmosti after 110 Years
On Hominid Evolution in South-Central Europe
On Hominid Evolution in South-Central Europe
A new male burial from Dolní Věstonice
The Origins of Ceramic Technology at Dolni Věstonice, Czechoslovakia
A typology was established for more than 5000 ceramic artifacts at Dolni Vestonice, Czechoslovakia. Conjectured methods of manufacture were confirmed by radiography. The compositions and mineralogy of the artifacts were identical to those of the local soil, loess. A firing temperature range of 500° to 800°C was measured and compared with those of hearths and kilns. The mechanism of sintering was impurity-initiated, liquid-phase sintering. Many fr…
Husbandry and Herd Control in the Upper Paleolithic
Die Steinmesser aus Abusir
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies]
Predmosti after 110 Years
Předmostí after 110 Years
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Předmosí (Czech Republic) is located at the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate, which is an important communication route in Central Europe. During 110 years of investigation, this site has yielded an immense number of artifacts, paleontological materials, human fossils, and art. Important parts of the archaeological and anthropological material were destroyed in 1945, but the illustrations are publish…
The Pavlov Site, Czech Republic
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 th…
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition
Hunters between East and West
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research
Creating Settlement Networks
Western Invasion
Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background
Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic
The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic
Hunters between East and West
This illuminating work describes-for the first time in English-current research on the environmental background, physical human evolution, and cultural development in Central Europe and Moravia during the Pleistocene
Hunters between East and West
Central Europe, Moravia, and Past Paleolithic Research. Pleistocene Paleoenvironments V. Lozek. Patterns of Human Evolution E. Vlcek Lower and Middle Paleolithic Background. Origins of the Upper Paleolithic. Culmination and Decline of the Upper Paleolithic. Western Invasion. Creating Settlement Systems. Appendix A: Catalog of Important Sites. Appendix B: List of Sites. Index
The depositional context of the Early Upper Paleolithic human fossils from the Koněprusy (Zlatý kůň) and Mladeč Caves, Czech Republic
The Upper Paleolithic triple burial of Dolní Věstonice
This work focuses on paleopathological analysis of one of the skeletons from the Gravettian triple burial of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia) and addresses issues of Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior. The burial includes the well‐preserved skeletons of three young individuals. The skeleton in the middle (DV 15) is pathological and very problematic to sex; the other two (DV 13 and DV 14) are males and lie in an unusual position. The young age, the poss…
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Mesolithic stone tool function and site types in Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic
The sandstone plateaus cut by canyons with rockshelters in Luxembourg, Germany and the northern Czech Republic remain relatively unexplored archaeologically. In northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, these were mainly settled during the Mesolithic. Recent surveys have revealed a network of Mesoltihic sites representing short and long-term occupations in canyon rockshelters. One long-term (Pod zubem) and one short-term site (Pod kdlem) were selected fo…
Fowling during the Gravettian
Pavlov VI
This newly discovered and excavated site defines an Upper Palaeolithic activity unit consisting of a roasting pit at the centre of an area 5m across. Although the main task was the processing of two mammoths, there were numerous other wild animals in the assemblage. The occupants used flint knives, made bone tools and modelled in baked clay - on which they left their fingerprints, along with imprints of reindeer hair and textiles. Pavlov VI offer…
Archaeology (40 works) · Geography (40 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (34 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 works) · Upper Paleolithic (16 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (15 works) · Biology (15 works) · Geology (14 works) · History (13 works) · Geology (10 works)