@book {1419424, title = {Str{\'a}nsk{\'a} sk{\'a}la: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Moravia, Czech Republic}, year = {2003}, pages = {232}, publisher = {Peabody Museum Press}, organization = {Peabody Museum Press}, address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, abstract = {

In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars{\textemdash}Czech and American archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, geologists, and biologists{\textemdash}report on the results of the investigations from 1980 through the 1990s at Str{\'a}nsk{\'a} sk{\'a}la, a complex of open-air loess sites on the outskirts of the Brno Basin in the Czech Republic.

The volume presents in-depth studies of the geology, paleopedology, frost processes, vegetation, fauna, and archaeological features of Str{\'a}nsk{\'a} sk{\'a}la that break new ground in our understanding of early modern humans in central Europe.

Jir{\'\i} Svoboda\ is Professor at the\ University of Brno\ and Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Dolni Vestonice,\ Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

Ofer Bar-Yosef\ is MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology,\ Harvard University.

}, url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873655514}, author = {Jir{\'\i} Svoboda and Ofer Bar-Yosef} }