Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The 2002-2003 Excavation in the Dzeravá Skala Cave, West Slovakia
AU  - Kaminská Ľ
AU  - Kozłowski JK
AU  - Svoboda JA
Y1  - 2004
VL  - 42
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 311
EP  - 322
KW  - Late Middle Paleolithic
KW  - Upper Paleolithic
KW  - Upper Pleistocene
KW  - Fauna
KW  - Industry
KW  - West Slovakia
N2  - 
N2  - 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 elsewhere, 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), Early Upper Paleolithic (34-37 ka BP), and the Late Middle Paleolithic (50.4 ka BP). The isolated human molar (right lower M2), found by Hillebrand in 1913, may be correlated with the EUP layers.
ER  -