Geoarchaeological Prospection In The Loess Steppe: Preliminary Results From The Lower Danube Survey For Paleolithic Sites (Lodans)
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2014

The Danube has long been considered a "highway" for the prehistoric hominin colonization of Europe. However, its role in the two most significant episodes of colonization e the first peopling of Europe in the LowereMiddle Pleistocene, and Late Pleistocene colonization by anatomically modern humans e is presently a matter of hypothesis based on the locations of only a few key archaeological sites. Much of Eastern Europe has a particularly low density of known sites, in part due to the thick loess