The east Carpathian loess record : a reference for the middle and late pleniglacial stratigraphy in central Europe [La séquence loessique du domaine est-carpatique : une référence pour le Pléniglaciaire moyen et supérieur d'Europe centrale.]

Abstract

The East Carpathian regional sequence established for the middle and late pleniglacial loess is based on records from the Palaeolithic sites Molodova V (Ukraine), Mitoc-Malu Galben (Romania) and Cosautsi (Moldova). The special importance of this long sequence lies 1) in the high quality of the pedosedimentary and climatic records favoured by the position of the three sites within the terrace system of the Driester and Prut basins and 2) in the high chronological resolution within the period posterior to 33,000 BP determined by the archaeological context of the multilayered Palaeolithic sites. A large number of these layers with a quite regular distribution within the sequence appeared to be rich m good quality organic material for accurate radiometnc dating. This made possible to establish a well documented pedosedimentary and climatic succession encompassing the main part of the middle pleniglacial and almost the whole upper pleniglacial, with a resolution degree around one millennium or several centuries. The analysis of this new sequence revealed a quite coherent internal structure that illustrates the complexity of the sedimentary and climatic dynamics within the time span 33,000 -10,000 BP.

Découverte de structures périglaciaires (sand-wedges et composite-wedges) sur le site de stockage de déchets radioactifs de l'Aube (France)

“…Given the absence of Quaternary sediments post-dating the development of the wedges, and their location at the top of a landscape very close to the present-day relief, we can at-tribute their formation to the Last Glacial Maximum. This interval of time is characterised by the general intensification of aeolian processes (loess/Cover Sands) in northern France [6,7], as well as over the whole of western and central Europe [10,15]. While the main infill of the wedges is composed of aeolian sand reworked from the slopes of the sand hill in a polar-desert-type environment, it is more difficult to interpret the occurrence of thin clayey laminae within the infill of some wedges.…”

On the present habitats and ecology of Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Vertiginidea) in Central Asia and its distribution history in Central and Eastern Europe

“…Motuz, 1987) the species was apparently not found again (Table 1). The find layer (culture layer 7) was dated to 27.5 ka cal bp (Table 5; Ivanova, 1987; Haesaerts et al ., 2003).…”

“…10.1 ‘Unterster Nassboden‘ (lowest wet soil); 10.2 ‘Dritter Nassboden‘ (third wet soil). 11 Molodova V, Dnjestr River valley (Chernõvtsy province, Western Ukraine), Weichselian loess, archaeological cultural layer 7 (Gravettian), wet soil (gley horizon) (Kahlke, 1967; Ložek, 1976; Ivanova, 1987), 23.7 ka 14 C bp (Haesaerts et al ., 2003), Ložek (1976) after I. K. Ivanova (verbal communication or examined material from Ložek). 12 Halych I, Dnister River valley, (south‐east of Lviv, western Ukraine), Late Pleistocene loess, gley horizon = archaeological cultural layer (Alexandrowicz et al ., 2014), for example, after Cyrek and Sytnyk (2012) cl.…”

“…10.1 'Unterster Nassboden' (lowest wet soil); 10.2 'Dritter Nassboden' (third wet soil). 11 Molodova V, Dnjestr River valley (Chernõvtsy province, Western Ukraine), Weichselian loess, archaeological cultural layer 7 (Gravettian), wet soil (gley horizon) (Kahlke, 1967;Ložek, 1976;Ivanova, 1987), 23.7 ka 14 C BP (Haesaerts et al, 2003), Ložek (1976) To get a better idea about the timing of the occurrences of V. pseudosubstriata in the Weichselian, all available radiocarbon dates have been compiled. Calibration followed the IntCal20 calibration curve (Reimer et al, 2020) as implemented in CalPal Version 2020.11 (Weninger et al, 2014).…”

Zooarchaeological analyzes of the faunal remains of the upper layer of Climăuţi II (Republic of Moldova)

“…However there was little information about the Last Glacial Maximum (23,000-20,000 BP). We are particularly interested by this period wich correspond to the transition between the first part of Upper Pleniglacial (26,000-20,000 BP) to the second part of Upper Pleniglacial (20,000-14,000 BP) (according to Haesaerts et al 2003) which relatively corresponds also to the transition from the Mid Upper Palaeolithic (29,000-24,000 BP) to the Late Upper Palaeolithic (23,000-10,000 BP). In this area an original culture was developed within the Gravettian called Molodovian or Eastern Gravettian and Epigravettian of Ukraine (Boriskovskyi 1953;Grigor'ev 1970;Chernysh 1954Chernysh , 1973Chernysh , 1985Otte et al 1996;Borziac 1998;Borziac and Koulakovska 1998;Borziac, Chirica 1999;Borziac, Haesaerts and Chirica 2005;Noiret 2004;Nuzhnyi 2009).…”