Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 39(1) 1996

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VOL 39(1) 1996

Keywords:

Cracow Spadzista, Upper Paleolithic, Pleistocene, mammoth, taphonomy

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Mammoth population from Cracow Spadzista Street (B) site

• Grzegorz LIPECKI
• Piotr WOJTAL

Abstract:

New excavations and analyses of materials from the Upper Paleolithic site Cracow Spadzista Street (B) indicate that 71 mammoths may have been killed at the site (or died there naturally), probably not all at once. About 99% of the site’s 9000 bones are from mammoth. The lower jaws and teeth give the highest MNI (71), but other bones represent varying numbers (from 58 represented by the atlas to 5 represented by metatarsal V). The site’s age profile is typical of a stable population.