Mesolithic Icoana revisited (II) – a reappraisal of the faunal remains
Mesolithic Icoana revisited (II) – a reappraisal of the faunal remains

Summary/Abstract: Located in southwestern Romania in the Iron Gates Gorges, Icoana was among the sites submerged foiiowing the building of the Iron Gates I dam and hydro-power station. Eight trenches were excavated with a total area of 91m2 and a maximum depth ofca. 3 m between 1967 and 1969. According to the AMS 14C dates, Icoana saw two occupations, one between ca. 8500-7600 cal BC during the Middle Mesolithic and the second during the Final Mesolithic ('Mesolithic-Neolithic Transformation Phase' of some authors, ca. 6200-5900 cal BC). In this paper, we present a revision of the Middle Mesolithic faunal remains from Icoana based on the existing collection curated at the 'Vasile Pârvan' Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest.

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