The Nature of Difference: History and Lithic Use-Wear at Two Upper Palaeolithic Sites in Central Europe

The starting point of this investigation was the striking absence in the archaeological literature of any detailed comparison between two significant Central European sites, despite their proximity in both geographical and temporal (roughly 30,000 to25,000 years before the present) terms. This silence was even more startling considering the fame that these two localities have enjoyed over the century since they were excavated - Willendorf II primarily in 1908, Dolni Vestonice starting in 19...