Stránská skála

Stránská skála is a hill and a national nature monument in Brno in the Czech Republic.

Its northwestern slope is composed from karstified limestone cliffs in which numerous fossiliferous fissures and caves were found.

At this place extensive excavations were made by paleontologist Rudolf Musil and his colleagues in 1956–1968 which yielded rich paleothological material, including Homotherium moravicum[1] teeth and approximately 1600 bones and bone fragments of birds from 23 families, 51 genera and 68 species.

Earlier (1943) were Ursus deningeri discovered, an later rich spectrum of coastal animal fossils such as ostracods, bivalves and fishes.

The site is unique in that it has been a particularly abundant source of prehistoric artifacts (especially stone tools) dating from the Acheulean period, ower Bohunician to Neolitics and Eneolitics, which spanned roughly 27,000 to 20,000 B.C.