Pleistocene climate change, natural environments and palaeolithic occupation of the upper Yenisei area, south-central Siberia

• Main Author: Chlachula, Jiří
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier, Pergamon Press 2001
• Subjects: klimatické změny; spraše; vegetační pásma; paleolit; Jenisej; climate change; loess; vegetation zones; paleolithic; Yenisei; Parkland; Yenisei River; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://publikace.k.utb.cz/handle/10563/1000021

The upper Yenisei River area is of major importance for mapping the Pleistocene climate evolution over Siberia. An extensive loess cover with a suite of buried palaeosols from the Northern Minusinsk Basin has provided one of the most complete, high resolution Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic archives in north-central Asia. The loess-palaeosol records indicate establishment of periglacial steppe-tundra during cold stadial intervals, replaced by parkland steppe and boreal forest during warm interstadial intervals.