Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Quartär des norddeutschen Vereisungsgebietes

Litt, Thomas; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Meyer, Klaus-Dieter; Stephan, Hans-Jürgen; Wansa, Stefan

doi:10.3285/eg.56.1-2.02

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“…While some studies favour a correlation with Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 (*430 ka; e.g., Beaulieu et al 2001), dating of peat from the type region in northern Germany by U/Th methodology indicates a correlation with MIS 9 (*330 ka; Geyh and Müller 2005). This correlation is also favoured by the German Commission for Quaternary Stratigraphy (Litt et al 2007). Following this chronological correlation of the Holsteinian, the likely age of erosion at the base of the Thalgut sequence is attributed to a glaciation that occurred during MIS 10 (*350 ka).…”

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“…While for many areas in other mountain ranges substantial glaciations are usually expected for this period, which is considered to represent the Rissian/Saalian glaciation (cf. Litt et al 2007;Habbe et al 2007), Schlüchter (1988a) concluded on the basis of the Thalgut and Meikirch sites that Swiss glaciers did not reach beyond the margin of the Alps during MIS 6. To solve this controversy, more drill holes will be necessary to evaluate potential periods of glacial overdeepening, to document the processes and timing of sedimentation and to investigate synchronicities in various glacial valleys along the alpine foreland.…”

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A ~180,000 years sedimentation history of a perialpine overdeepened glacial trough (Wehntal, N-Switzerland)

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A 30 m-deep drill core from a glacially overdeepened trough in Northern Switzerland recovered a *180 ka old sedimentary succession that provides new insights into the timing and nature of erosion-sedimentation processes in the Swiss lowlands. The luminescencedated stratigraphic succession starts at the bottom of the core with laminated carbonate-rich lake sediments reflecting deposition in a proglacial lake between *180 and 130 ka ago (Marine Isotope Stage MIS 6). Anomalies in geotechnical properties and the occurrence of deformation structures suggest temporary ice contact around 140 ka. Up-core, organic content increases in the lake deposits indicating a warming of climate. These sediments are overlain by a peat deposit characterised by pollen assemblages typical of the late Eemian (MIS 5e). An abrupt transition following this interglacial encompasses a likely hiatus and probably marks a sudden lowering of the water level. The peat unit is overlain by deposits of a cold unproductive lake dated to late MIS 5 and MIS 4, which do not show any direct influence from glaciers. An upper peat unit, the so-called «Mammoth peat», previously encountered in construction pits, interrupts this cold lacustrine phase and marks more temperate climatic conditions between 60 and 45 ka (MIS 3). In the upper part of the core, a succession of fluvial and alluvial deposits documents the Late Glacial and Holocene sedimentation in the basin. The sedimentary succession at Wehntal confirms that the glaciation during MIS 6 did not apparently cause the overdeepening of the valley, as the lacustrine basin fill covering most of MIS 6 is still preserved. Consequently, erosion of the basin is most likely linked to an older glaciation. This study shows that new dating techniques combined with palaeoenvironmental interpretations of sediments from such overdeepened troughs provide valuable insights into the past glacial history.

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A ~180,000 years sedimentation history of a perialpine overdeepened glacial trough (Wehntal, N-Switzerland)

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“…The Elsterian glaciation is correlated either with MIS 12 (Gibbard and Cohen, 2008;Ehlers et al, 2011) or MIS 10 (Litt et al, 2007Lee et al, 2012). However, new studies indicate two separate ice advances into northern Germany during MIS 12 and MIS 10 (Roskosch et al, 2015), which is also supported by the occurrence of two separate tills (Eissmann, 2002;Litt et al, 2007). At Sch€ oningen, deposits of the Elsterian glaciation and the subsequent interglacial were deposited and preserved in a tunnel valley (Lang et al, 2012).…”

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“…The remnant tunnel valley was completely filled by glacilacustrine deposits and overlain by subglacial till during the Drenthe ice advance of the Saalian glaciation. The ice advances of the Saalian glaciation in northern Germany are generally correlated with MIS 6 (Litt et al, 2007;Ehlers et al, 2011). However, there is growing evidence of an earlier ice advance during MIS 8 (Beets et al, 2005;Kars et al, 2012;Roskosch et al, 2015).…”

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The Middle Pleistocene tunnel valley at Schöningen as a Paleolithic archive

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Böhner

Polom

et al. 2015

Journal of Human Evolution

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“…The origins of the use and control of fire is one of the central and most debated topics in Paleolithic archaeology and human evolution (e.g., Goudsblom, 1986;James et al, 1989;de Lumley, 2006;Gowlett, 2006;Wrangham, 2009;Alperson-Afil and Goren-Inbar, 2010;Roebroeks and Villa, 2011a;Sandgathe et al, 2011a;Gowlett and Wrangham, 2013). Fire use and control would have provided several crucial advantages to early humans: it can serve as a light and heating source (Oakley, 1955;Bellomo, 1994;Gilligan, 2010), as a hunting aid (Goudsblom, 1986;Mallol et al, 2007), can be used for cleaning occupation surfaces (Goldberg et al, 2009;Wadley et al, 2011), as protection from predators (Goudsblom, 1986;Brain, 1991), as a means to improve tool technology (Ahlers, 1983;Mallol et al, 2007;Brown et al, 2009), and as a way to increase food range, its nutritional value, and preservation (Stahl et al, 1984;Bellomo, 1994;Wrangham et al, 1999;Wrangham and Conklin-Brittain, 2003;Mallol et al, 2007;Wrangham, 2009; for an overview, see Clark and Harris, 1985).…”

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On the evidence for human use and control of fire at Schöningen

Stahlschmidt

Miller

Ligouis

et al. 2015

Journal of Human Evolution

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When and how humans began to control fire has been a central debate in Paleolithic archaeology for decades. Fire plays an important role in technology, social organization, subsistence, and manipulation of the environment and is widely seen as a necessary adaptation for the colonization of northern latitudes. Many researchers view purported hearths, burnt wooden implements, and heated flints from Schöningen as providing the best evidence for the control of fire in the Lower Paleolithic of Northern Europe. Here we present results of a multianalytical study of the purported hearths along with a critical examination of other possible evidence of human use or control of fire at Schöningen. We conclude that the analyzed features and artifacts present no convincing evidence for human use or control of fire. Our study also shows that a multianalytical, micro-contextual approach is the best methodology for evaluating claims of early evidence of human-controlled fire. We advise caution with macroscopic, qualitative identification of combustion features, burnt flint, and burnt wood without the application of such techniques as micromorphology, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, organic petrology, luminescence, and analysis of mineral magnetic parameters. The lack of evidence for the human control of fire at Schöningen raises the possibility that fire control was not a necessary adaptation for the human settlement of northern latitudes in the Lower Paleolithic.

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Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Quartär des norddeutschen Vereisungsgebietes

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A ~180,000 years sedimentation history of a perialpine overdeepened glacial trough (Wehntal, N-Switzerland)

A ~180,000 years sedimentation history of a perialpine overdeepened glacial trough (Wehntal, N-Switzerland)

The Middle Pleistocene tunnel valley at Schöningen as a Paleolithic archive

On the evidence for human use and control of fire at Schöningen

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