Located above the city of Krems, the loess-covered hill between the rivers Danube and Krems has been well-known for its Upper Palaeolithic sites for more than a century (Neugebauer-Maresch,2008). Recent fieldwork at Krems-Wachtberg
(see Fig. 1 in Lomax et al., 2014)
carried out by the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology (former Prehistoric Commission)
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has led to the discovery and investigation of an Early Gravettian camp site which yielded a wide range of highresolution data, due to the excellent conservation, e.g. of the base of the main archaeological unit (AH 4), where a surface with distinct anthropogenic structures (archaeological horizon AH 4.4) is preserved.