Site TypecaveDescriptionLocated near the town of Goranec, on the Ravna Gora, near Varazdin, about 20km northeast of the famous site of Krapina. Velika Pecina is a cave with 16 archaeological levels, ranging from Mousterian to Roman. The lower levels include stone tools from the denticulate Mousterian culture. Also presented is a dated Aurignacian hearth (33,850 +/- 520 BP) and a dated Gravettian industry (26,500 +/- 300 BP). Fossil hominid remains have been found at Velika Pecina. The most prominent of these is a frontal bone found beneath the Aurignacian layer, and therefore older than 33,000 years.
Site Name
Velika Pecina
Alternate Site Name
Velika
Site Type
cave
Description
Located near the town of Goranec, on the Ravna Gora, near Varazdin, about 20km northeast of the famous site of Krapina. Velika Pecina is a cave with 16 archaeological levels, ranging from Mousterian to Roman. The…
Located near the town of Goranec, on the Ravna Gora, near Varazdin, about 20km northeast of the famous site of Krapina. Velika Pecina is a cave with 16 archaeological levels, ranging from Mousterian to Roman. The lower levels include stone tools from the denticulate Mousterian culture. Also presented is a dated Aurignacian hearth (33,850 +/- 520 BP) and a dated Gravettian industry (26,500 +/- 300 BP). Fossil hominid remains have been found at Velika Pecina. The most prominent of these is a frontal bone found beneath the Aurignacian layer, and therefore older than 33,000 years.
Citation
Page Citation for Velika Pecina - Velika
Page Citation
"Site Details - Velika Pecina - Velika, Bryan/Gruhn Archaeology Collection." University of Alberta Museums Search Site, https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/7-92/17-1572. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Publications
AuthorSmith, Fred H.
TitleA Fossil Hominid Frontal from Velika Pecina (Croatia) and a Consideration of Upper Pleistocene Hominids from Yugoslavia
Publication Date1976-01
Series TitleAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology