Cave deposits as a sedimentary trap for the Marine Isotope Stage 3 environmental record: The case study of Pod Hradem, Czech Republic

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NEJMAN Ladislav LISÁ Lenka DOLÁKOVÁ Nela HORÁČEK Ivan BAJER Aleš NOVÁK Jan WRIGHT Duncan SULLIVAN Marjorie WOOD Rachel GARGETT R. H. PACHER Martina SÁZELOVÁ Sandra NÝVLTOVÁ FIŠÁKOVÁ Miriam ROHOVEC Jan KRÁLÍK Miroslav

Rok publikování 2018
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.020
Klíčová slova Palaeoclimate; Geoarchaeology; Human occupation; Micromorphology; Geochemistry
Popis Pod Hradem Cave, located in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic, offers an excellent opportunity for environmental reconstructions of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in Central Europe due to its detailed sedimentary record dated 50,000 to 28,000 cal BP. Identifying the natural environments of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) transition is necessary to understand the settlement strategies and related behaviour of both Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans, both of whom may have occupied the region at the same time. A multidisciplinary excavation was carried out between 2011 and 2016. Detailed analyses of the sediments, vertebrate microfauna, pollen and charcoal revealed minor but observable fluctuations in climate, with little change in the surrounding vegetation. The Pod Hradem palaeoenvironmental dataset is complex, but generally reflects a predominantly glacial climate with a range of vegetation types and habitats during the Late Pleistocene, followed by the warmer and more humid Holocene. The MUP transition as recorded in Pod Hradem Cave was a glacial environment interrupted by two relatively warmer periods. Central Europe experienced extreme climate fluctuations during MIS3, as recorded from different sedimentary archives, but it seems that the Pod Hradem Cave environment may have acted as a buffer zone, ameliorating those extremes, and providing a suitable refuge for both bears seeking winter hibernation dens and occasionally visiting humans.

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