Étude de la faune des niveaux gravettiens de la grotte Kozarnika (Bulgarie du Nord) : Résultats préliminaires.

• Main Authors: Guadelli, Jean-Luc, Delpech, Françoise, Guadelli, Aleta, Miteva, Viviana
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Archéologie et Musée, Académie Bulgare des Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 1999
• Subjects: Bulgaria; Upper Palaeolithic; Gravettian; Upper Pleistocene; isotopic stage 2; Reindeer; Paleoenvironment; bone industry; bone point with notch; Kozarnika; Bulgarie; Gravettien; Pléistocène supérieur; stade isotopique 2; Renne; Rangifer tarandus; Paléoenvironnement; industrie osseuse; pointe à cran en os; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; Giganteus; Alces alces; renne
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00133990; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00133990/document; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00133990/file/1999_Guadelli_Delpech_Guadelli_Miteva_Kozarnika_Original.pdf

3 fig., 11 tab. International audience The cave Kozarnika, situated in the Northwest of Bulgaria near the plain of Danube, in approximately 3 km of the village of Orechets (district of Belogradtchik) and in some 30 km of the Serbian border. This cavity is the object of excavations for 3 years by a Bulgaro-French team steered by N. Sirakov (BAS) and J.-L. Guadelli (CNRS). The deposits, recognized until now on 6,80 m of depth, cover the last 800 millenniums and the chronocultural sequence contains of the base in the summit: an industry for the moment not definite dated about 780.000 years, Middle Palaeolithic, archaic Upper Palaeolithic, Gravettian, Epigravettian and post-palaeolithic levels. The fauna presented within the framework of this preliminary note results from Gravettian levels are dated between 26 and 11 Kyrs BP (isotopic stage 2). The fauna contains 5106 remains but only 241 were able to be determined because of a very strong rate of fragmentation. The identified taxa are the following ones: Crocuta crocuta spelaea, Vulpes vulpes, Ursus spelaeus, Cervus elaphus, Megaloceros cf. giganteus, Alces alces, Rangifer tarandus, Capra cf. ibex, Bison priscus, Bovinae ind., Equus caballus cf. germanicus. We shall note the presence of the Reindeer for the first time indicated to the South of the Danube as well as the existence of an original bone industry which delivered among others a real bone point with notch. La grotte Kozarnika, située dans le Nord-Ouest de la Bulgarie près de la plaine danubienne, à environ 3 kms du village d'Orechets (district de Belogradtchik) et à quelques 30 kms de la frontière serbe. Cette cavité fait l'objet de campagne de fouilles depuis 3 ans par une équipe bulgaro-française dirigée par N. Sirakov (BAN) et J.-L. Guadelli (CNRS). Les dépôts, reconnus jusqu'à présent sur 6,80 m de profondeur, couvrent les 800 derniers millénaires et la séquence chronoculturelle renferme de la base au sommet : une industrie pour le moment non déterminée datée d'environ 780.000 ans, du ...