Les Grands Mammifères du début du paléolithique supérieur à Temnata.

• Main Authors: Guadelli, Jean-Luc, Delpech, Françoise
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), B. Ginter, J.K. Kozlowski, J.-L. Guadelli, H. Laville
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2000
• Subjects: Faunal Association; Biochronology; Biogeography; Italo-Balkan Province; Paleoenvironment; Upper Pleistocene; Upper Würm; Isotopic stages 3; 2; Northern Bulgaria; the Balkans; Association faunique; Biochronologie; Biogéographie; Province Italo-Balkanique; Paléoenvironnement; Pléistocène supérieur; Würm récent; Stades isotopiques 3; Temnata Dupka; Bulgarie du Nord; Balkans; [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; [SDE.MCG.SIC]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes/domain_sde.mcg.sic; Arctic
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00134607; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00134607/document; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00134607/file/2000_Guadelli_Delpech_Temnata_Original.pdf

10 fig., 117 tab. The study of the big mammals presented here interests, of the base in the summit, the layer VI in TDII, the layer 4 in TDI and TDV, the layers 3j to 3g in TD-V. The important fragmentation did not allow determining the totality of the material and the percentage of determination at least at the level of the genera varies according to the assemblages from 5 to 50 %. As for the upper levels Carnivores are infrequent in the studied levels (14.18 %), the Bear and the Hyena being the most numerous. Among Herbivores the Horse dominates followed by Bovinae, the Red Deer and the Ibex. The Horse, Equus caballus, of the layer VI of TD-II or the layers 4, 3j to 3g of TD-I and TD-V gets closer more to the shape germanicus that of that, gallicus, described in the Western Europe from fossils of comparable age. The study of the Horse is that of Equus hydruntinus allows to precise the outlines of a biogeographical province “Italo-balkanique” which distinguishes itself easily from provinces situated on the West by the alpine bow. In each of the assemblages, the Group of Non Arctic Opened Environment dominates widely (50 in 73 %) and it is in the lower layers VI and 4 than it is strongest, it falls in 3j at 3h then raises to more than 60 % in 3g, 3d and 3a. It indicates the dominance of grassy steppes. The swampy, present wet zones permanently, had doubtless always a limited development. The variation of the proportion of the Group of Wooded Environment indicates that layers VI, 3j at 3h, 3g and, in a lesser measure the layer 4 would correspond to the least cold and the wettest climates, layers 3d and, especially, 3a in the driest and the coldest climate, thus in the most opened environments. The fauna of Temnata Dupka translates the paleoclimatic originality in the South of the Danube during the last pleniglacial. Considering the state of fragmentation of the fauna the Archaeozoologicale study is very limited but it seems well that the Man was the main collector even if the activity of the Hyena strongly ...