Where is the Lower Palaeolithic in Eastern Europe hiding?

Iza Romanowska supervised by

The rarity of Lower Palaeolithic sites in Central and Eastern Europe has for a long time been explained away as the result of a poor history of research in the region. Archaeological research in Poland, Hungary or Russia has been regarded as delayed, less intensive and methodologically inferior compared with Western Europe. I shall challenge this notion showing that there is no substantial gap between the quality of research in Eastern and Western Europe and that prolonged communistic rule actually boosted development of field and academic archaeology behind the iron curtain. Furthermore, a new tentative hypothesis explaining the low density of Lower Palaeolithic finds east of Rhine will be presented.