The Late Palaeolithic Site of Kammern-Grubgraben (Lower Austria). Additional Data on Loess Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment

Abstract

The combined stratigraphic, archaeological and chronological data gained at Kammern-Grubgraben since 1985 led to the establishment of a loess palaeosol reference sequence for Lower Austria covering the second half of the Late Pleniglacial. Extended to the Middle Dniester Basin, this approach allows the Kammern-Grubgraben data to be inserted into a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental record framed between c. 21,000 and 13,000 BP by a long series of radiocarbon dates on charcoal, which is further correlated with the Greenland ice record.