Early Upper Paleolithic sites in the Danube catchment have been put forward as evidence that the river was an important conduit for modern humans during their initial settlement of Europe. Central to this model is the Carpathian Basin, a region covering most of the Middle Danube. As the archaeological record of this region is still poorly understood, this paper aims to provide a contextual assessment of the Carpathian Basin’s geological and paleoenvironmental archives, starting with the late Upper Pleistocene. Subsequently, it compiles early Upper Paleolithic data from the region to provide a synchronic appraisal of the Aurignacian archaeological evidence. It then uses this data to test whether the relative absence of early Upper Paleolithic sites is obscured by a taphonomic bias. Finally, it reviews current knowledge of the Carpathian Basin’s archaeological record and concludes that, while it cannot reject the Danube corridor hypothesis, further (geo)archaeological work is required to understand the link between the Carpathian Basin and Central and Southeastern Europe.

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多瑙河走廊假说和喀尔巴阡盆地：刻画奥里尼亚克动力学的地质，环境和考古方法

已经提出了多瑙河流域早期的旧石器时代遗址，以作为证明该河流是现代人类在其最初定居欧洲期间的重要管道的证据。该模型的核心是喀尔巴阡盆地，该地区覆盖了多瑙河中部的大部分地区。由于对该地区的考古记录仍知之甚少，因此本文旨在从上更新世晚期开始对喀尔巴阡盆地的地质和古环境档案进行背景评估。随后，它汇编了该地区早期的旧石器时代的数据，以对奥里尼亚克考古证据进行同步评估。然后，它使用该数据来测试早期的旧石器时代遗址的相对缺失是否被拼音偏见所掩盖。最后，