Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic in the Carpathian Area – Past and Present
Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic in the Carpathian Area – Past and Present

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian Carpathians have a considerable number of active and fossil caves, with a high archaeological potential for the Paleolithic period. If in the statistics of 1976, a number of 1.884 caves were recorded, recently, in 2019, approximately 12.000 caves are mentioned, of which 2.908 are fossils and have sedimentary packages that can archive human activity. From all these, only about 10 caves have benefited from systematic archaeological research. Caves with evidence from the Middle Paleolithic seemed, until recently, to be concentrated in the Southern Carpathians, but the results obtained recently from the karst of the Vârghiş Gorge, the Perşani Mountains (Eastern Carpathians), draw attention to the necessity to expand archaeological research in the entire area of the Romanian Carpathians.

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