Putim, Písek dist., South Bohemian Region

A hunter-gatherer landscape with seasonal settlement traces from various periods of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, dating to ca. 300,000 – 5,000 BC. Archaeological excavations and surveys revealed around fifty hunting camps situated on the edges of a former lake and wetlands that were changed into an artificial pond in the 16th century. The local environment provided hunters and gatherers with rich sources of food: fish, fowl, eggs, water plants, forest berries and large herbivores in the nearby woodlands. Human activities are primarily documented by chipped stone tools, found here in large quantities.

References: Dubský 1949; Fröhlich 1997; Michálek 2003; Vencl a kol. 2006, 2007; www_Putim.

Navigation points: N 49°14'58.45", E 14°05'45.87".