Mokrá - lom (quarry) I
The section consists a Holocene soil and loessic horizon continually
grading into brown soil. Artifacts lie in the area between the lower soil
and loess; some were already in the loess. The collection of 36 inventorized
artifacts is composed of 9 types (25 %), 3 partly retouched artifacts,
and 10 other non-retouched blades. The group of types is composed of three
backed microblades, one borer, two burins, and an endscraper combined with
a point. 13 microchips (from resharpening of tools) were found in the excavated
area. With one exception (a chert of Olomucany type), all other artifacts
were made from northern flint. Surface collection from the vicinity of
the site yielded a borer, backed microblade, and one flake. The other accumulation
of finds (some meters in the eastern direction) was destroyed during quarying.
Another endscraper and borer together with two blades are of Neolithic
age.
Mokrá - lom II
With the same stratigraphy as site I, site II possesses artifacts found
in loess, in sediment grading from loess to soil, and in the upper part
of the soil. The collectoin is composed mainly of flakes and fragments
made from glaciflints of lower quality. The tools include a steeply retouched
sidescraper, burin on the truncation, chissels, artifact with concave truncation
and notch, another artifact with a notch, and a fragment of the bifacialy
retouched artifact.
Mokrá - lom III
One sidescraper and several another artifacts were found in the eastern
part of the Mokrá limestone quarry. This site was already destroyed by
the exploitation of limestone.
Mokrá - lom IV
This surface site lies on an area of 100x200 m. Both raw material and
typological spectra are comparable to site II.
Mokrá - lom V
A collection of artifacts was excavated from sediment among the limestone
blocks. The artifacts are probably made from Cretaceous spongolite chert
and the collection is composed of series of the backed microblades, some
of them with straight truncation (suggesting a Magdalenian age), one borer,
one endscraper, and four burins. A rest represent small flakes and fragments.
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Summary
These small sites lie near the complex of caves around the Říčka river.
The distance between the Pekárna cave and sites I-II, and IV-V is about
1 km. These stations can be interpreted as summer camps of Pekárna hunters
(sites I and V), or specialized hunter-site (hunting or butchering place).
Both chronological and cultural interpretation of the sites II, III,
and IV are still not clear.