Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 58(2) 2015

Issue:

VOL 58(2) 2015

DOI:

10.3409/azc.58_2.181

Keywords:

Fossil fauna, habitat and climate change, steppe-tundra, radiocarbon dating, Obłazowa Cave

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New Late Pleistocene faunal assemblages from Podhale Basin, Western Carpathians, Poland: preliminary results

• Adam NADACHOWSKI
• Paweł VALDE-NOWAK.

Abstract:

Interdisciplinary studies in Obłazowa Cave undertaken near its western entrance and in a new archaeological site in Cisowa Rock yielded finely layered sedimentary sequences with an abundant fossil fauna of mainly small vertebrates and scarce archaeological finds. In this paper we present a preliminary palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the sequences dated around MIS2/MIS 1 boundary on the basis of small mammal assemblages. The faunal changes appear to be gradual in spite of abrupt climatic changes expected to occur at that time. The environmental and faunal results are discussed with other sequences of similar age in Poland.