Est-il possible d’identifier des groupes pavloviens sur le territoire d’actuelle Slovaquie ?

Did the Pavlovian groups occupy the current territory of Slovakia? The mountainous territory of central Europe was occupied during the Early and Middle Gravettian by various human groups. Among these groups, the Pavlovian has a special place. It is world-famous for its rich material culture and symbolic behaviors. Concentrations of its occupations, called microregions, are identified along the natural corridor that crosses Moravia and Czech Silesia (Moravian Corridor). Within this cultural entity, two distinct groups have recently been identified from the lithic industries: a microsaws group and a geometric microliths group. Each of them is characterized by a different behavior towards mineral resources, its stone fossiles directeurs, as well as peculiarities in production systems. This article aims to assess the extension of these two Pavlovian groups to the territory of present-day Slovakia and to identify real series/objects that would validate its analogies. This involves discussing the three sites containing lithic material (the Dzeravá skala Cave, the Nemšová I open-air site, and the Slaninová Cave), which were compared in the past to the Pavlovian or the Early and Middle Gravettian. The first observations suggest that none of these collections delivered material with sufficient quality and quantity to support these analogies.