A skeleton of ‘steppe’ mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig)) from Drmno, near Kostolac, Serbia

Lister, Adrian M.; Dimitrijević, Vesna; Marković, Zoran; Knežević, Slobodan; Mol, Dick

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.021

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“…The oldest remains of M. trogontherii in Europe are from the Kostolac section in Serbia (Fig. 1) (Lister et al, 2012) in levels currently dated to~0.8 Ma, shortly before the BrunheseMatuyama boundary (Muttoni et al, 2015b; see also below) ( Fig. 14).…”

Section: European Entry Of Mammal Immigrants From Africa and Asiamentioning

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Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Muttoni

Scardia

Kent

2018

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since~0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/ interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis.

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“…For example, in the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia (Fig. 1), a nearly complete skeleton of M. trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loesspaleosol sequence (Lister et al, 2012;Dimitrijevi c et al, 2015) (Fig. 17).…”

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Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Muttoni

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Kent

2018

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“…The Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia (Fig. 1A, B) yielded a nearly complete and in situ skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii, informally named Vika (Lister et al, 2012), from a fluvial sand interval ( Fig. 2A) sealed by a thick loess-paleosol succession (Fig.…”

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Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution

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At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess–paleosol sequence where a second paleontological level named Nosak with remains of M. trogontherii was found. We studied the magnetostratigraphy of the Kostolac sedimentary sequence and found that the Vika layer dates to ~ 0.8 Ma, shortly before the Brunhes–Matuyama boundary. In addition, according to our age model and previously reported optically stimulated luminescence and electron spin resonance dates, the Nosak fossils have an estimated age of 0.19 Ma and lived during the earliest part of Marine Isotope Stage 6. It appears therefore that at Kostolac, M. trogontherii is preserved both at its earliest occurrence at ~ 0.8 Ma and close to its latest occurrence at 0.19 Ma, and may well have been present in between, albeit not yet found. We speculate that megaherbivores such as M. trogontherii entered Europe along a conjunct Danube–Po River migration conduit connecting western Asia-Levant with central-southern Europe where vast and exploitable ecosystems, particularly suited for steppe- or savanna-adapted megaherbivores from Asia and Africa, developed during the late early Pleistocene climate revolution at around 0.8 Ma.

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“…The most significant discoveries to date have been a Kostolac steppe mammoth skeleton from Middle Pleistocene fluvial deposits, discovered in 2009 (Lister et al . 2012) and the later finding of a rich palaeontological layer, including further steppe mammoth fossils from the latest Middle Pleistocene loess‐palaeosol succession, in 2012 (Marković et al . 2014a; Dimitrijević et al .…”

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A post‐IR IRSL chronology and dust mass accumulation rates of the Nosak loess‐palaeosol sequence in northeastern Serbia

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Marković

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In the Middle Danube Basin, Quaternary deposits are widely distributed in the Vojvodina region where they cover about 95% of the area. Major research during the last two decades has been focused on loess deposits in the Vojvodina region. During this period, loess in the Vojvodina region has become one of the most important Pleistocene European continental climatic and environmental records. Here we present the dating results of 15 samples taken from the Nosak loess‐palaeosol sequence in northeastern Serbia in order to establish a chronology over the last three glacial–interglacial cycles. We use the pIRIR290 signal of the 4–11 μm polymineral grains. The calculated ages are within the error limits partially consistent with the proposed multi‐millennial chronostratigraphy for Serbian loess. The average mass accumulation rate for the last three glacial–interglacial cycles is 265 g m−2 a−1, which is in agreement with the values of most sites in the Carpathian Basin. Our results indicate a highly variable deposition rate of loess, especially during the MIS 3 and MIS 6 stages, which is contrary to most studies conducted in Serbia where linear sedimentation rates were assumed.

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A skeleton of ‘steppe’ mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig)) from Drmno, near Kostolac, Serbia

Cited by 32 publications

References 12 publications

Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution

A post‐IR IRSL chronology and dust mass accumulation rates of the Nosak loess‐palaeosol sequence in northeastern Serbia

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