TY - JOUR

T1 - Pleistocene mammal fauna of the trlica locality, Montenegro

AU - Agadzhanyan, Alexandre K.

AU - Vislobokova, Inesa A.

AU - Shunkov, Mikhail V.

AU - Ulyanov, V. A.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017, National Museum Prague. All rights reserved.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The paper presents new evidence on the small and large mammal fauna from the Trlica locality, Montenegro, based on our records from the 2010 – 2014 excavations. It is shown that the lower layers of the locality correspond to the Early Pleistocene, and the upper layers are dated as the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene. The results obtained allow us to characterize the environment in which the oldest hominid migrants dwelt in this region of South-Eastern Europe. Within the interval 1.8–1.5 Ma, there was a relatively cool climate in the region. At the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, the climate became milder; the areas occupied by forests, including broad-leaved forests, increased. The presence of Lagurini throughout the section is evidence of the existence of local areas of steppe in northern Montenegro during the Early Pleistocene and first half of the Middle Pleistocene.

AB - The paper presents new evidence on the small and large mammal fauna from the Trlica locality, Montenegro, based on our records from the 2010 – 2014 excavations. It is shown that the lower layers of the locality correspond to the Early Pleistocene, and the upper layers are dated as the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene. The results obtained allow us to characterize the environment in which the oldest hominid migrants dwelt in this region of South-Eastern Europe. Within the interval 1.8–1.5 Ma, there was a relatively cool climate in the region. At the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, the climate became milder; the areas occupied by forests, including broad-leaved forests, increased. The presence of Lagurini throughout the section is evidence of the existence of local areas of steppe in northern Montenegro during the Early Pleistocene and first half of the Middle Pleistocene.

KW - Montenegro

KW - Paleogeography

KW - Pleistocene

KW - Small and large mammals

KW - Stratigraphy

KW - instrumental nouns

KW - Proto-Indo-European

KW - Proto-Germanic

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027562545&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1515/if-2017-0005

DO - 10.1515/if-2017-0005

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85027562545

VL - 73

SP - 93

EP - 114

JO - Fossil Imprint

JF - Fossil Imprint

SN - 2533-4050

IS - 1-2

ER -