Late Pleistocene environment of the Częstochowa Upland (Poland) reconstructed on the basis of faunistic evidence from archaeological cave sites.

Adam Nadachowski, Marcin Żarski, Mikołaj Urbanowski, Piotr Wojtal, Barbara Miękina, Grzegorz Lipecki, Katarzyna Ochman, Mirosław Krawczyk, Gwidon Jakubowski & Teresa Tomek (2009)

Late Pleistocene environment of the Częstochowa Upland (Poland) reconstructed on the basis of faunistic evidence from archaeological cave sites.

Late Pleistocene environment of the Częstochowa Upland (Poland) reconstructed on the basis of faunistic evidence from archaeological cave sites 112 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-83-61358-12-1

The study of Late Pleistocene environment is based on analyses of fossil vertebrate assemblages from three archaeological cave localities (Komarowa, Deszczowa and Krucza Skała). Faunistic evidence in conjunction with lithological studies and AMS 14C dating enables to reconstruct pelaeoenvironments in the studied area during almost whole late middle and late Pleistocene. The composition of faunal assemblages is described for younger Saalian (Warta Glaciation, OIS 6), Early Weichselian (Toruń Stadial and Gniew Interstadial, OIS 5d-5a), Pleni-Weichselian (Grudziądz Interstadial, OIS 3) as well as last Glacial Maximum and Late Glacial (OIS 2). Remains of Allactaga and Macaca are described from Komarowa Cave for the first time in Poland.