There’s the Szeletian in Hungary, Bohunician in the Czech Republic, Uluzzian in Italy, Bachokirian in Bulgaria and the cobbled-together Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician identified in Britain, Belgium and Eastern Europe. The million-dollar question is who made them. The Proto-Aurignacian, which follows intermediate cultures in Europe, has produced H. sapiens mtDNA from a tooth at Fumane. But skeletal remains are vanishingly rare before this, and frustratingly, many key sites were either excavated over 40 years ago, or have obvious signs of disturbance or mixing between layers.
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