New information augmenting the picture of local environment at the LGM/LGT in the context of the Middle Danube region

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F16%3A43890968" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890968 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093834

Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959683616640051" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959683616640051</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616640051" target="_blank" >10.1177/0959683616640051</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

New information augmenting the picture of local environment at the LGM/LGT in the context of the Middle Danube region

Original language description

Records of occupation by humans in the period following shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 21 +/- 2 kyr cal. BP) are still very rare in Central Europe, since it is inferred that the extreme climatic conditions caused the decolonisation of previously settled areas. Our study focuses on the reconstruction of environmental conditions in the surroundings of the open-air Palaeolithic site, Brno-Styrice III, which falls within this period. The research concentrated on the study of malacological, pollen and anthracological samples to reconstruct the climate shortly after the LGM. C-14 dating places the chronostratigraphic position of the site more precisely at the end of the LGM, more specifically into Last Glacial Termination (LGT); analysis of chipped stone industry identifies the occupation with the Epigravettian settlement. The site represents a significant example of the recurrent habitation of a microclimatically favourable microregion near a watercourse in order to utilise available sources of livelihood. The results of the pollen, anthracological and malacological analyses documented a more or less treeless character of surrounding landscape. The vegetation was mostly formed by a mixture of shrub tundra and grassy loess steppe vegetation. Open woodland with birch, willow and bird cherry occurred in relatively moist river banks and the lower slopes of hills with more favourable microclimatic conditions. Malacological collection highlights the presence of cool temperate species (Pupilla loessica, Vallonia excentrica and Helicopsis striata). In the surroundings of the studied site, the pollen analysis provided a reconstruction of parkland forest-steppe vegetation (with lack of temperate deciduous trees) typical for a cold and dry climate.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-11193S" target="_blank" >GA13-11193S: Holocene environmental dynamics in the Hornomoravský úval region: Key processes inducing the formation of recent landscape mosaic.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Holocene

ISSN

0959-6836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1345-1354

UT code for WoS article

000381283200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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