Les grands Mammifères gravettiens et aurignaciens de la grotte de Temnata.

• Main Authors: Delpech, Françoise, Guadelli, Jean-Luc
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), J.K. Kozlowski, H. Laville, B. Ginter
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 1992
• Subjects: Associations fauniques; Equus caballus; Equus hydruntinus; Romanelli; Biogéographie; Province « Italo-Balkanique »; Crocuta crocuta spelaea; Paléoenvironnement; Temnata Dupka; Bulgarie; Balkans; Faunal assemblages; Biogeography; ”Italo-Balkanic” province; Paleoenvironment; Bulgaria; the Balkans; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Arctic
• Online Access: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00134647

5 fig., 55 tab. The fauna studied here come from layers 3f, 3e, 3d', 3d, 3c, 3a. The taxa represented in the gravettian and aurignacian levels of Temnata were able only rarely to be the object of a detailed palaeontological study because the very important fragmentation makes that the number of vestiges attributable to each of them is not still enough and their state of preservation often little satisfactory. In a general way Carnivores are rare in all the levels and the Bear is the most plentiful. As regards Herbivores the Horse dominates followed by the Ibex, Bovine and the Red Deer. The faunal groups testify of the dominance of the forms of not arctic steppes, then of those of mountain, of woody regions and more or less swampy regions; this is to be put in connection with the topography of the region but the presence of Bos primigenius in the layer 3a could also testify of the institution of a little sweeter conditions or at least wetter. The study of Equus hydruntinus and doubtless also that of the Horse allow to bring to light the biogeographical originality of an "Italian-Balkan" province sharply different from the other provinces on the West of the Alpine bow. The Archaeozoological study was not able to be very far led because of the very big fragmentation and of the state of preservation of the remains but it seems that the Man is responsible for the bone accumulation in the whole of the studied layers, even if we can distinguish also a clear action of the Hyena in the layer 3g. La faune étudiée ici provient des couches 3f, 3e, 3d', 3d, 3c, 3a. Les taxons représentés dans les niveaux gravettiens et aurignaciens de Temnata n'ont pu que rarement faire l'objet d'une étude paléontologique approfondie car la très importante fragmentation fait que le nombre de vestiges attribuables à chacun d'eux n'est pas toujours suffisamment élevé et leur état de conservation souvent peu satisfaisant. De manière générale les Carnivores sont rares dans tous les niveaux et l'Ours est le plus abondant. En ce qui concerne ...