Pleistocene environments and archaeology of the Dzerava skala Cave, Lesser Carpathians, Slovakia.

This book summarizes the results held between 1912 and 2003 in the Dzerava skala cave by Hillebrandt, Prosek, and the actual international interdisciplinary team. These fieldworks opened complex stratigraphic sections, showing combination of in situ developed sediments, in-blown loess, and clays, paleosols and clasts removed from elswhere, most probably from the above cave chimneys. In terms of sedimentology, paleobotany and paleontology, this sequence illustrates the climatic record from the Holocene over the Last Glacial Maximum to the more temperate oscillations of the Interpleniglacial, and, possibly, early glacial. Human visits during the Pleistocene were repeated but episodic in character. The Pleistocene record comprises the Late Paleolithic, Gravettian (25 – 31,7 ka BP), and the Early Upper Paleolithic to Late Middle Paleolithic (34 – 50 ka BP).