Climatic Events and Upper Paleolithic Chronology in the Dniester Basin: New <sup>14</sup>C Results from Cosautsi

Haesaerts, Paul; Borziak, Ilic; Plicht, Johannes van der; Damblon, Freddy

doi:10.1017/s0033822200018580

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“…Most yield evidence of kill-butchery events (primarily horse), in this case associated with habitation areas, which also reflects a pattern found among Paleoindian sites in North America [i.e., camps near large-mammal kill/ butchery locations (15,16)]. Modern human skeletal remains have been recovered from several of them, including Kostenki 12, layer I and Kostenki 15 (52), although the skeleton recovered from Kostenki 14, layer II recently has yielded some midHolocene radiocarbon dates (54).…”

Section: Eastern Europementioning

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The spread of modern humans in Europe

Hoffecker

2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The earliest credible evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe is an archaeological proxy in the form of several artifact assemblages (Bohunician) found in South-Central and possibly Eastern Europe, dating to <48,000 calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal BP). They are similar to assemblages probably made by modern humans in the Levant (Emiran) at an earlier date and apparently represent a population movement into the Balkans during a warm climate interval [Greenland Interstadial 12 (GI 12)]. A second population movement may be represented by a diverse set of artifact assemblages (sometimes termed Proto-Aurignacian) found in the Balkans, parts of Southwest Europe, and probably in Eastern Europe, and dating to several brief interstadials (GI 11-GI 9) that preceded the beginning of cold Heinrich Event 4 (HE4) (Ϸ40,000 cal BP). They are similar to contemporaneous assemblages made by modern humans in the Levant (Ahmarian). The earliest known human skeletal remains in Europe that may be unequivocally assigned to H. sapiens (Peçstera cu Oase, Romania) date to this time period (Ϸ42,000 cal BP) but are not associated with artifacts. After the Campanian Ignimbrite volcanic eruption (40,000 cal BP) and the beginning of HE4, artifact assemblages assigned to the classic Aurignacian, an industry associated with modern human skeletal remains that seems to have developed in Europe, spread throughout the continent.archaeology ͉ Neanderthals ͉ Homo sapiens ͉ Western Eurasia

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Section: Eastern Europementioning

confidence: 55%

The spread of modern humans in Europe

Hoffecker

2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

129

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“…Also, work by Cheddadi et al (2006), who used an extensive dataset of pollen and macrofossil remains of P. sylvestris in combination with genetic evidence and a vegetation model to simulate the extent of the potential refugia during the last glacial period, proposed glacial refugia around the Iberian peninsula and Italy, as well as in the Hungarian Plain and the Danube area (cf Willis et al, 2000;Willis and van Andel, 2004). In the east Carpathian area, charcoal remains also attest to pine stands along the Pruth and Dniester rivers (Damblon and Haesaerts, 2002;Haesaerts et al, 1998;Haesaerts et al, 2003). Genetic work on the phylogeography of the Eurasian pine shoot beetle Tomicus piniperda, a species that is presently a pest in pine stands in Eurasia, also shows a clear genetic differentiation between populations found presently in southern Europe and those in western Russia (Ritzerow et al, 2004).…”

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The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database

Binney

Willis

Edwards

et al. 2009

Quaternary Science Reviews

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a b s t r a c tWe present a database of late-Quaternary plant macrofossil records for northern Eurasia (from 23 to 180 E and 46 to 76 N) comprising 281 localities, over 2300 samples and over 13,000 individual records. Samples are individually radiocarbon dated or are assigned ages via age models fitted to sequences of calibrated radiocarbon dates within a section. Tree species characteristic of modern northern forests (e.g. Picea, Larix, tree-Betula) are recorded at least intermittently from prior to the last glacial maximum (LGM), through the LGM and Lateglacial, to the Holocene, and some records locate trees close to the limits of the Scandinavian ice sheet, supporting the hypothesis that some taxa persisted in northern refugia during the last glacial cycle. Northern trees show differing spatio-temporal patterns across Siberia: deciduous trees were widespread in the Lateglacial, with individuals occurring across much of their contemporary ranges, while evergreen conifers expanded northwards to their range limits in the Holocene.

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“…It may correspond to a more recent permafrost event that is not recorded at Cestas or results from contamination of the sample by recent organic matter (Evin et al, 1979). Evidence of permafrost occurrences associated with tundra gleys between 16 and 17 14 C ka BP in the loess belt (Haesaerts et al, 1998) suggests that the first hypothesis cannot be rejected.…”

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Coversand and Pleistocene palaeosols in the Landes region, southwestern France

Bertrán

Allenet

Gé

et al. 2008

J Quaternary Science

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New sections in the coversand of the Landes region, southwestern France, show at least two main depositional phases corresponding to the Upper Pleniglacial and the Lateglacial, which are separated by palaeosols. The lower palaeosol, a gleyic to histic cryosol overlying a net of sand wedges and dated to ca. 23 14 C ka BP, testifies to a short occurrence of permafrost. Impeded drainage due to the frozen subsoil is assumed to be the main factor involved in lowered aeolian transport and soil formation. Pollen analysis indicates a shrub tundra-type environment. The overlying coversand unit is associated with small transverse ridges or sheet-like deposits, and corresponds to the maximal extension of the sands, Upper Pleniglacial in age. An incipient podzol developed on the dunes under a boreal pine forest, and has been dated to 11.5-12 14 C ka BP, i.e. to the Allerød period. This has been buried by the second coversand unit during the Younger Dryas, typified by abundant denivation features and root imprints. Although preliminary, the chronology of sand deposition in the Landes region appears thus to be roughly similar to that found for the other European coversands, showing that all were the result of similar western European climatic changes, i.e. repeated episodes of increasing aridity related to the Upper Pleniglacial and the Younger Dryas episode.

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Climatic Events and Upper Paleolithic Chronology in the Dniester Basin: New ¹⁴C Results from Cosautsi

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The spread of modern humans in Europe

The spread of modern humans in Europe

The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database

Coversand and Pleistocene palaeosols in the Landes region, southwestern France

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Climatic Events and Upper Paleolithic Chronology in the Dniester Basin: New 14C Results from Cosautsi

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The spread of modern humans in Europe

The spread of modern humans in Europe

The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database

Coversand and Pleistocene palaeosols in the Landes region, southwestern France

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Climatic Events and Upper Paleolithic Chronology in the Dniester Basin: New ¹⁴C Results from Cosautsi