Demidenko, Yuri E./Thorsten Uthmeier
Kiik-Koba Grotto, Crimea (Ukraine)

Re-Analysis of a Key Site of the Crimean Micoquian.

The book presents one of several complexes from earlier excavations now re-analysed for publication. Kiik-Koba Grotto is famous for its Neanderthal burials published with special attention to Neanderthal hands in G. A. Bonch-Osmolowski’s excavation report. The present volume starts with an appreciation of Bonch-Osmolowski, the history of investigations, and new analytic approaches to the Kiik-Koba Micoquian flint artefacts. Next are techno-typological data and reduction models of the Micoquian flint artefacts from layer IV. One Chapter deals with the original assemblage of this layer and the Crimean Micoquian in general. Attention is also paid to bone retouchers from the upper layer of Kiik-Koba Grotto and to the zooarchaeological analysis of the large mammalian fauna from layer IV. Ultimately there is an overview of the re-analyses of Micoquian layer IV at Kiik-Koba Grotto. 181 Seiten mit 65 Abb. und 33 Tab., Großformat, gebunden (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie; Band 3/Verlag Marie Leidorf 2013)