Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 49A(1-2) 2006

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VOL 49A(1-2) 2006

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Radiocarbon (C-14) dating of bones, Vistulian (Weichselian), stratigraphy, cave deposits, fossil remains of birds, paleoenvironment, paleoclimate

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Radiocarbon dating of some Late Pleistocene faunal assemblages in caves in Poland

• LORENC M.

Abstract:

26 bone samples were radiocarbon (AMS) dated. The bones were almost exclusively those of birds and came from cave deposits correlated mainly with the Vistulian (Weichselian). The material came from six sites: Deszczowa Cave, Upper Rock Shelter of the Deszczowa Cave, Cave in Dziadowa Skała, Sąspowska Zachodnia Cave, Mamutowa Cave, and Obłazowa Cave. The ages of most of the radiocarbon-dated samples were not in agreement with the stratigraphy of layers from which they originated that is proposed in the literature.