The 2002-2003 excavations in the Dzerava skala Cave, West Slovakia.

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.

Basic information

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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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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

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Abstract

V originále

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.