The Skulls From Dolni Vestonice, And Mammoth Killing Gravettian

Rabinder Kumar
Lessons from History
2 min readJul 28, 2023

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These three skulls are approximately 30,000 years old, excavated from Dolni Vestonice (Archeological site ) in the Czech Republic.

Experts analyzed various samples from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy that are closely co-related and show population expansion with the Gravettian archaeological culture.

Dolni Vestonice is an open-air area near the stream. It dates approximately 26,000 BP(years before the present), and the inhabitant hunted mammoths and other animals.

Dolni Vestonice was occupied specifically for mammoth hunting, and with as many as twenty to twenty-five people per hut, and approximately five or six huts being occupied at a time on the site, the population may have been 100–120 strong.

It is unknown how long visitors will stay in each season or how long the location may be used. They used to build fenced boundaries from the bones of mammoths and other animals.

In Gravettian Culture, people were hunter-gatherers who lived in a bitterly, harsh and cold period of prehistoric Europe. They used different tools and hunting strategies.

They developed tools such as blunted-back knives, tanged arrowheads, and boomerangs. Gravettian hunting culture was much more mobile and intricate than the Neanderthals and other human groups.

The culture slowly began to diminish in Northern Europe, during the post-glacial period.

~ Rabinder Kumar

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Rabinder Kumar
Lessons from History

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