SVOBODA, Jiří, L. KAMINSKA and J.K. KOZLOWSKI. The 2002-2003 excavations in the Dzerava skala Cave, West Slovakia. Anthropologie 42. ČR: Moravské zemské muzeum Brno, 2004, vol. 2004, No 42, p. 311-322. ISSN 0323-1119.
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Original name The 2002-2003 excavations in the Dzerava skala Cave, West Slovakia.
Name in Czech Výzkum jeskyně Dzeravá skala, západní Slovensko, v letech 2002-2003.
Authors SVOBODA, Jiří, L. KAMINSKA and J.K. KOZLOWSKI.
Edition Anthropologie 42, ČR, Moravské zemské muzeum Brno, 2004, 0323-1119.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Keywords in English Upper Paleolithic; Upper Pleistocene; fauna; industry; West Slovakia
Tags Fauna, industry, Upper Paleolithic, Upper Pleistocene, West Slovakia
Changed by Changed by: prof. PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, DrSc., učo 36778. Changed: 19/12/2008 10:43.
Abstract
The new excavations at the Dzeravá skala cave opened a complex stratigraphic section, showing combination of in situ developed sediments, in-blown loess, and clays, paleosols and clasts removed from elswhere, most probably from the above cave chimneys. In terms of paleobotany and paleontology, this sequence illustrates the climatic record from the Holocene over the Last Glacial Maximum to the more temperate oscillations of the Interpleniglacial, and, possibly, even before that. Two aspects are of importance: the almost constant presence of cave bears throughout the Pleistocene layers, and the repeated human visits. The archaeological record comprises the Neolithic, probably Late Paleolithic, Gravettian (25 – 31,7 ka BP), and the Early Upper Paleolithic (34 – 37 ka BP). The isolated human molar (right lower M2), found by Hillebrand in 1913, may be correlated with the EUP layers.
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