Faunal remains from Borsuka Cave – an example of local climate variability during Late Pleistocene in southern Poland

• Published in: Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia
• Main Authors: Wilczyński, Jarosław, Barbara, Miękina, Grzegorz, Lipecki, Lembi, Lõugas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2012
• Subjects: Pura; Alces alces; Rangifer tarandus; taiga; Tundra; Lynx
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/7727; https://doi.org/10.3409/azc.55_2.131

The Borsuka Cave is located in the southern part of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, about 20 km west of Kraków. During excavations conducted in 2008-2010 a very rare and interesting faunal assemblage from layer VI was found, dating to the Upper Pleniglacial. Among cold steppe-tundra or taiga species such...