DVA MAMUTÍ MOLÁRY Z OBJEKTU LENGYELSKÉ KULTURY ZE ŠELEŠOVIC (OKR. KROMĚŘÍŽ) (original) (raw)

In 2022, another stage of rescue archaeological research was carried out in connection with the construction of family houses in the north-eastern outskirts of the village of Šelešovice (District of Kroměříž). Among the structures investigated on plot No. 476/10, a large exploitation pit dominated the area, in the filling material of which two molars of a woolly mammoth were found. This discovery was an impetus for writing a short study paying attention to the unusual site situation, in which the remains of extinct Pleistocene fauna mix with material from the more recent stage of the culture with Moravian painted pottery, which dates the researched structure. The two molars were from an adult woolly mammoth, but the lack of collagen prevented their precise 14C dating. This curious site situation demonstrates a special relationship with naturally occurring curiosities, which the Neolithic inhabitants probably came across on the exposed terraces of the Morava River and its local tributaries, or at the nearest Gravettian sites (Napajedla, Spytihněv). They relocated both molars from their original environment to the settlement area as a “manuport”, although they probably did not make any further use of them (for example as a working tool).

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