Calowanie, A Final Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic Site on an Island in the Ancient Vistula Channel About LEGO Power functions Official LEGO Shop US. ISBN: 978 83 93760 30 4Description: hardback, 376 pp. (30x21cm), phots., maps, drawingsCondition: very goodWeight: 1658g. Calowanie, A Final Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic Site on an Island in the Ancient Vistula Channel, ed. by Romuald Schild, IAE, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2014The Pekatka Hill of Caowanie, a small sandy mound surrounded by the Caowanie Moor, a large expanse of wetlands filling a Late Glacial fossil Vistula Valley, is a place where artifacts of nearly 40 Final Paleolithic occupation units lay buried in alluvial and dune sands and peat bogs. Most of the units were left by small groups of the Stone Age hunter gatherers making uncountable and recurrent visits to the same spot, drawn by many attractions of the contiguous areas. The Pkatka Hill preserved a 5000 year long dormant record of their world. The present book, offered to the gracious readers, attempts to put together all the information gathered during many years of excavations, field and lab work and writing. Changing environments, lithology and the dynamics of sediment deposition on the hill and in the surrounding marshes is quite well mirrored by the functional makeups of flint tool kits and spatial histories of core processing, tool repair, and discard. It also tells us that the seasonality of landscape use and, therefore, camping was the major name of the game in those remote times as well as throughout all of prehistory. PREFACERomuald SchildCHAPTER I. IntroductionRomuald SchildReferencesCHAPTER II. Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Paleoecology and RadiochronologyRomuald SchildIntroductionGeneral Geomorphic Setting and Macro Stratigraphy. An OverviewMicro StratigraphyReferencesCHAPTER III. Archaeological MaterialsRomuald Schild, Dagmara Maka, Halina Krlik and Maria MarczakLevel ILevel IILevel IIILevel IVLevel IVa. Old Tanged Point (OTP) AssemblageLevel IVb. Arch Backed Piece TechnocomplexLevel VLevel VILevels VII and VIII VariaReferencesCHAPTER IV. Functional Analysis of Selected Flint AssemblagesMagorzata Winiarska KabaciskaIntroduction Assemblages with Arched Backed Pieces and Endscrapers (Arch Backed Pieces Technocomplex) The Younger Tanged Point Assemblage References CHAPTER V. Masovian Camp Organization in Cut I as Seen From the Perspective of Lithic Artifacts RefittingJan Fiedorczuk Introduction Methods and Results of Refitting Settlement Structures in Sites of the Masovian Complex Features Spatial Relationships Between Identified Structures Structure Systems vs. Occupation Episodes, or the Spatial Organization of CampsiteConclusionsReferences CHAPTER VI. Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Vegetation History and Use of Plant Foods in the Middle Vistula River Valley at CaowanieLucy Kubiak Martens and Kazimierz Tobolski Introduction Materials and MethodsInterpretation of Pollen Record (L PAZ) and Chronology Interpretation of Plant Macrofossil Records (L MAZ)Vegetation History of the Site Area Through the Occupation Phases Plant Foods in Subsistence of the Site Dwellers ConclusionsReferences CHAPTER VII. A SynthesisRomuald Schild The Place of the Taxonomic Lithic Entities from Caowanie in the Final Paleolithic of Poland The Pkatka Hill Settlement ReferencesINDEX