Environment changes during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Poland (Central Europe). A multiproxy approach for the MIS 3 sequence of Koziarnia Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland)

Abstract This paper attempts to show that manufacture of Micoquian bifacial backed tools was structured. Data for this study were collected using a comprehensive analysis of artefacts from the site Pietraszyn 49a, Poland, which is dated to the beginning of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Based on the whole data set, it was possible to distinguish four stages of the manufacturing process. During manufacturing, both mineral hammer and organic hammer were used. The tools were usually shaped due to distinct hierarchization of faces. The study has also shown that the shape of bifacial tools from Pietraszyn 49a is very similar to the other Micoquian examples from central Europe. The ways of shaping of some tools are finding their counterparts also in the Early Upper Palaeolithic inventories, but the similarities are rather limited to the narrow range of preparation of bifacial form.

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Isotopic investigations of climate and seasonality in Central Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic

Quaternary International ◽

10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.1563 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 279-280 ◽

pp. 467

Author(s):

Rhiannon Stevens

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Upper Palaeolithic

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A reassessment of ‘<i>Globigerina bathoniana</i>’ Pazdrowa, 1969 and the palaeoceanographic significance of Jurassic planktic foraminifera from southern Poland

Journal of Micropalaeontology ◽

10.1144/0262-821x11-015 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 97-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Malcolm B. Hart ◽

Wendy Hudson ◽

Christopher W. Smart ◽

Jarosław Tyszka

Keyword(s):

Water Column ◽

Central Europe ◽

Middle Jurassic ◽

The Other ◽

Carbonate Sediments ◽

Calcareous Nannofossils ◽

Planktic Foraminifera ◽

Geological Record ◽

Sea Floor ◽

Southern Poland

Abstract. ‘Globigerina Ooze’, Foraminiferal Ooze or Carbonate Ooze as it is now known, is a widespread and highly characteristic sediment of the modern ocean system. Comparable sediments are much less common in the geological record although, as we describe here, a number of Middle Jurassic carbonate sediments with distinctive assemblages from Central Europe fulfil many of the criteria. One important component of these assemblages in the Middle Jurassic is ‘Globigerina bathoniana’ Pazdrowa, 1969, first described from the Bathonian sediments near Ogrodzieniec (Poland). The generic assignment of this species and other coeval Jurassic taxa is discussed. This species and many of the other early planktic foraminifera evolved in the Aragonite ll Ocean, together with the other two oceanic carbonate producers: the calcareous nannofossils and the calcareous dinoflagellates. The preservation of carbonate sediments with abundant planktic foraminifera on the sea floor indicates that, by the mid-Jurassic, the carbonate/aragonite compensation depths (and associated lysoclines) must have developed in the water column.

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Invertebrates in contemporary coniferous resins – an insight into the ecosystem?

Fragmenta Faunistica ◽

10.3161/00159301ff2019.62.2.117 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 117-134

Author(s):

Natalia KASZYCA ◽

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Angelina KUBUSIAK ◽

Bartosz BARAN ◽

Arkadiusz IMIELA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Picea Abies ◽

Pinus Sylvestris ◽

Central Europe ◽

Mixed Forest ◽

Ethanol Solution ◽

Invertebrate Fauna ◽

Southern Poland ◽

The World ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Insight Into

A study aiming at the description of invertebrate fauna trapped in contemporary, coniferous resins was undertaken in a mixed forest of Central Europe (Southern Poland). Resins were collected predominately from spruce (Picea abies), but also from pine (Pinus sylvestris) and larch (Larix decidua), the cadavers were extracted from the ethanol solution of resin. As many as 394 specimens were extracted, consisting mainly of insects, but also arachnids, crustaceans and single mollusc were found. Among the collected specimens, some were identified to species, and a few mutual, ecological interrelationships could be traced. Although the amount of collected resins is far from being comparable with the amount of particular types of amber studied in the world so far, the Discussion focuses on similarities and differences in insect inclusions composition in resins and known amber collections.

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Changeability of Air Pollution in Katowice Region (Central Europe, Southern Poland)

Advanced Air Pollution ◽

10.5772/22013 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mieczysaw Lesniok

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Central Europe ◽

Southern Poland

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The problems of the Szeletian as seen from Hungary

Recherches Archéologique Nouvelle Serie ◽

10.33547/rechacrac.ns9.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 19-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Zsolt Mester

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Special Focus ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Research History ◽

Points Of View

The Szeletian is widely accepted as one of the cultural units typical of the transition from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe and associated with Neanderthals. Its eponymous site is Szeleta Cave in northeastern Hungary, excavated mainly from 1906 to 1913 by O. Kadić. Although the Szeletian has altogether more than one hundred years of research history, this cultural unit is far from being clearly defined. This paper gives an overview of the related problems from typological, technological, chronological and archaeological points of view, with a special focus on those concerning the open-air and cave sites of Hungary.

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Report on the First Season's Fieldwork on British Upper Palaeolithic Cave Deposits

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society ◽

10.1017/s0079497x0001656x ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 260-269 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

C. B. M. McBurney

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Late Glacial ◽

Research Fund ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Low Countries ◽

Cave Deposits ◽

Environmental Background ◽

The University

During the Easter and Summer of 1958 a programme of investigations into British Upper Palaeolithic cave deposits was initiated on behalf of the Prehistoric Society, with the aid of a grant from the Research Fund. The work was further supported by the Crowther Beynon Fund of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Cambridge. Labour in the field was provided by students in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University, with notable assistance from several members of the Society in different areas.The prime objectives of the work, which is still in progress, are to define more precisely the character of the different stages in the British Upper Palaeolithic, and to study them against their chronological and environmental background. In this way it is hoped to throw light on wider problems of the relation of British finds to the rapidly emerging picture of the Late Glacial hunting communities of Central Europe and the Low Countries.

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