Paleolitik Ciganske jame pri Zeljnah

Abstract

The results of the author's excavations on the cave site of Ciganska jama at Željne near Kočevje, in the southern part of Slovenia, are presented. The site is located in the dry part of a major cave system, which continues to be hydrographically active. Among normal cave-layers there is a half-metre thick layer of alluvial clay. The excavation did not reach the cave floor, since the lovvest layers, though originally deposited in a dry cave, are now submerged in the ground water. The lovvest cultural layer situated below the alluvial clay is quite poor, but undoubtedly belongs to the Gravettian. The remains in the upper cultural layer, above the clay, pertain to a developped Gravettian in its emphatically microlithic form. A spccific feature of the upper cultural layer is intensive cryoturbation, clearly visible in vertical sections.