2020
DOI: 10.17738/ajes.2020.0015
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A Middle Pleistocene steppe bison find within the Dürnstein Castle (Wachau, Lower Austria)

Abstract: In the course of foundation works in the Dürnstein Castle cervical and front leg bones of a large Bison priscus bull were discovered in fluvial sediments. The small city of Dürnstein with its medieval centre is part of the UNESCO Wachau Cultural Landscape and is built mainly on Palaeozoic basement rocks. The find location is completely overbuilt, but remnants of fluvial sediments on the bones together with the altitude of the site approximately 17 m above the Danube point to a Middle Pleistocene fluvial aggrad… Show more

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“…Among the recently extinct species, the steppe bison ( Bison priscus ) was the most wide-ranging one, inhabiting the Mid-Late Pleistocene steppes of the northern hemisphere. Its habitat ranged from Europe across Asia to North America, which is also called the great Pleistocene bison belt [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. However, despite its abundant remains, this extinct species is still relatively poorly known regarding its origin, dispersal and population divergence [ 1 , 12 , 13 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among the recently extinct species, the steppe bison ( Bison priscus ) was the most wide-ranging one, inhabiting the Mid-Late Pleistocene steppes of the northern hemisphere. Its habitat ranged from Europe across Asia to North America, which is also called the great Pleistocene bison belt [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. However, despite its abundant remains, this extinct species is still relatively poorly known regarding its origin, dispersal and population divergence [ 1 , 12 , 13 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%