Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 41(1) 1998

Issue:

VOL 41(1) 1998

Keywords:

Subfossil birds, Altai Mts., Late Pleistocene, Upper Palaeolithic, Neolithic

Download PDF

Share this article:

The birds of the Late Quaternary of the Altai Mts.

• N.I. BURCHAK-ABRAMOVICH
• D.N. BURCHAK

Abstract:

21 bird species were identified in the material excavated from Upper Palaeo­lithic and Neolithic deposits in 3 karstic caves in the Altai Mts: Strashnaya Cave, Logovo Gieny Cave and Mamatka Cave. Moreover, birds identitied from Ust’-Kanskaya Cave were also included in the general review of species. All these species have recently bred in the area investigated or not very far from it. The bone of Falco altaicus is the most inter­esting of these finds.