TY - JOUR
T1 - Paleoenvironment of the Fore-Baikal region in the Karginian interstadial
T2 - Results of the interdisciplinary studies of the Bol'shoj Naryn site
AU - Sato, Takao
AU - Khenzykhenova, Fedora
AU - Simakova, Alexandra
AU - Danukalova, Guzel
AU - Morosova, Eugeniya
AU - Yoshida, Kunio
AU - Kunikita, Dai
AU - Kato, Hirofumi
AU - Suzuki, Kenji
AU - Lipnina, Ekaterina
AU - Medvedev, German
AU - Martynovich, Nikolai
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (A) (Grant No. 21251009 , Title: “Overall Research on the Adaptive Behavior of Late Paleolithic Man in Northeastern Eurasia”, Head Researcher: T. Sato). Many of the staff and students of Irkutsk State University and the Geological Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy Sciences also helped with the projects. We wish to express our special gratitude to them, in particular to Dr. Margarita Erbajeva and Dr. Sergey Kuznetsov who gave us material and moral support.
PY - 2014/5/30
Y1 - 2014/5/30
N2 - As a result of integrated researches on two Paleolithic sites of the Fore-Baikal region - Bol'shoj Naryn and Gerasimov's, the first representative mammal fauna of the Karginian interstadial been dated and characterized. That provided the basis for reconstructing the paleoenvironments in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3. The species composition of the faunal remains recovered from the Bol'shoj Naryn site in the course of five-year excavations since 2003 was examined in details. Since 2010, the cultural layer was studied layer-by-layer (at 5 cm intervals), all the artifacts and faunal remains (of mollusks, birds, and mammals) being described. In addition, the lower, middle and upper parts of cultural layer were sampled for palynological analysis. The geological and paleontological data thus obtained suggest a moderately cold and humid climate in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3, with predominant open landscapes of steppes and relatively limited areas under taiga forest, tundra, and wetlands.There are abundant data on significant environmental changes in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3 previously obtained by investigators, such as pollen spectra recovered from the Lake Kotokel bottom sediments or faunal remains (including small mammals) excavated from the Bol'shoj Naryn site. The present study, however, differs from the earlier ones in that it included multidisciplinary analysis of a large number of faunal and floral remains recovered from the same section and characterizing the same region. The data thus obtained from the Bol'shoj Naryn site are extremely important for better understanding of the Late Pleistocene environments of the Fore-Baikal region.
AB - As a result of integrated researches on two Paleolithic sites of the Fore-Baikal region - Bol'shoj Naryn and Gerasimov's, the first representative mammal fauna of the Karginian interstadial been dated and characterized. That provided the basis for reconstructing the paleoenvironments in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3. The species composition of the faunal remains recovered from the Bol'shoj Naryn site in the course of five-year excavations since 2003 was examined in details. Since 2010, the cultural layer was studied layer-by-layer (at 5 cm intervals), all the artifacts and faunal remains (of mollusks, birds, and mammals) being described. In addition, the lower, middle and upper parts of cultural layer were sampled for palynological analysis. The geological and paleontological data thus obtained suggest a moderately cold and humid climate in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3, with predominant open landscapes of steppes and relatively limited areas under taiga forest, tundra, and wetlands.There are abundant data on significant environmental changes in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3 previously obtained by investigators, such as pollen spectra recovered from the Lake Kotokel bottom sediments or faunal remains (including small mammals) excavated from the Bol'shoj Naryn site. The present study, however, differs from the earlier ones in that it included multidisciplinary analysis of a large number of faunal and floral remains recovered from the same section and characterizing the same region. The data thus obtained from the Bol'shoj Naryn site are extremely important for better understanding of the Late Pleistocene environments of the Fore-Baikal region.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.050
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.050
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900501390
SN - 1040-6182
VL - 333
SP - 146
EP - 155
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
ER -