Vegetation Changes in Kulunda During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene: First Results of the Pollen Study of Lake Kuchuk Bottom Sediments

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

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The First Results of Tephrochronological Study of Late Pleistocene–Holocene Volcanic Eruptions in the Zhom–Bolok River Valley (Eastern Sayan)

Doklady Earth Sciences ◽

10.1134/s1028334x1905026x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 486 (1) ◽

pp. 503-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. A. Shchetnikov ◽

E. V. Bezrukova ◽

E. V. Kerber ◽

O. Yu. Belozerova ◽

M. I. Kuzmin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Volcanic Eruptions ◽

River Valley ◽

First Results ◽

Eastern Sayan

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Microplastics in Baltic bottom sediments: Quantification procedures and first results

Marine Pollution Bulletin ◽

10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.10.060 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 114 (2) ◽

pp. 724-732 ◽

Cited By ~ 77

Author(s):

M Zobkov ◽

E Esiukova

Keyword(s):

Bottom Sediments ◽

First Results

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Late Pleistocene tephrostratigraphy of sea-bottom sediments in the Eastern Margin of Japan Sea by MD 179-Japan Sea Gas Hydrate Expedition

Journal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology ◽

10.3720/japt.78.79 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 79-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Yuya Nakamura ◽

Toshihiko Sugai ◽

Takeshi Ishihara ◽

Antonio Fernando Freire ◽

Ryo Matsumoto

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Bottom Sediments ◽

Gas Hydrate ◽

Japan Sea ◽

Eastern Margin ◽

Sea Bottom

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Lithology, biostratigraphy, and geochronology of the late pleistocene-holocene sediments on the coast of Onega bay of the White sea

Доклады Академии наук ◽

10.31857/s0869-56524852221-225 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 485 (2) ◽

pp. 221-225

Author(s):

V. V. Kolka ◽

O. P. Korsakova ◽

N. B. Lavrova ◽

T. S. Shelekhova ◽

N. E. Zaretskaya

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Bottom Sediments ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

White Sea ◽

The White Sea ◽

Southeastern Part ◽

Sedimentary Sequences ◽

Onega Bay ◽

Holocene Sediments ◽

Sea Coast

This paper reports on the lithological, micropaleontological, and chronometric data (radiocarbon dating) for one of the areas of the White Sea coast. The sedimentary sequences were studied in the current lake basins, which were separated from the large basin at different times. The basin was situated in the head of the current Onega Bay. On the basis of these data, the bottom sediments were stratified and the Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleogeographic settings were reconstructed for the southeastern part of Onega Bay.

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