An ancient continuous human presence in the Balkans and the beginnings of human settlement in western Eurasia: A Lower Pleistocene example of the Lower Palaeolithic levels in Kozarnika cave (North-western Bulgaria)

Nicolai Sirakov , Jean-Luc Guadelli (1) , Stefanka Ivanova (2) , Svoboda Sirakova (3) , Myriam Boudadi-Maligne , Irena Dimitrova (4) , Philippe Fernandez (5) , Catherine Ferrier (6) , Aleta Guadelli (3) , Dina Iordanova , N. Iordanova , Mira Kovatcheva , Ivaylo Krumov , Jean-Claude Leblanc , Viviana Miteva , Vasil Popov , R. Spassov , Stanimira Taneva (3) , Tsenka Tsanova (1)

1 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
2 NAIM - Archaeological Institute and Museum
3 NAIM - National Archaeological Institute and Museum
4 Department of Archaeology
5 LAMPEA - Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique
6 INPGQ

Keywords: Bulgarie; Europe orientale; Kozarnika; Pléistocène inférieur; Paléolithique inférieur; Préhistoire; industrie lithique; typologie lithique; technologie lithique; mammifère; archéozoologie; trace de découpe; boucherie

Domains: Archaeology and Prehistory

Nicolai Sirakov, Jean-Luc Guadelli, Stefanka Ivanova, Svoboda Sirakova, Myriam Boudadi-Maligne, et al.. An ancient continuous human presence in the Balkans and the beginnings of human settlement in western Eurasia: A Lower Pleistocene example of the Lower Palaeolithic levels in Kozarnika cave (North-western Bulgaria). Quaternary International, 2010, 223-224, pp.94-106. ⟨halshs-00521024⟩