Environmental Variability Of The Ponto-Caspian And Mediterranean Basins During The Last Climatic Macrocycle

Yanina, Т.А.

doi:10.24057/2071-9388-2020-120

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“…This stage, which is locally named Atelian lasted to around 48 ka [42,83,86]. The maximum low stand during the Atelian is estimated at -120 to -140 m exposing vast areas around the Caspian Sea [87][88][89][90][91][92][93]. Recent research on the northern coasts of the Caspian Sea documents mammalian remains including mammoth, horse and reindeer in the Atelian deposits.…”

Section: Caspian Sea Level Fluctuationsmentioning

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Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

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The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents two distinct techno-complexes of Micoquian and Mousterian. These findings potentially outline two dispersal routes for the Neanderthals out of Europe. Using data on topography and Palaeoclimate, we generated computer-based least-cost-path modelling for the Neanderthal dispersal routes from Caucasus towards the east. In this regard, two dispersal routes have been identified: A northern route from Greater Caucasus associated with Micoquian techno-complex towards Siberian Altai and a southern route from Lesser Caucasus associated with Mousterian towards Siberian Altai via the Southern Caspian Corridor. Based on archaeological, bio- and physio-geographical data, our model hypothesises that during climatic deterioration phases (e.g. MIS 4) the connection between Greater and Lesser Caucasus was limited. This issue perhaps resulted in the separate development and spread of two cultural groups of Micoquian and Mousterian with an input from two different population sources of Neanderthal influxes: eastern and southern Europe refugia for these two northern and southern dispersal routes respectively. Of these two, we focus on the southern dispersal route, for it comprises a ‘rapid dispersal route’ towards east. The significant location of the Southern Caspian corridor between high mountains of Alborz and the Caspian Sea, provided a special biogeographical zone and a refugium. This exceptional physio-geographic condition brings forward the Southern Caspian corridor as a potential place of admixture of different hominin species including Neanderthals and homo sapiens.

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Section: Caspian Sea Level Fluctuationsmentioning

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Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

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“…At the same time, only a few endemics have been found in these areas (see Table 2). Low diversity in these areas can also be explained by the influence of ancient periods of cooling and glaciation, especially the significant influence of the cold climate in Pleistocene [94,95]. Tya) [100,101], also representing the recent speciation [54].…”

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Insights on the Existence of Ancient Glacial Refugee in the Northern Black/Azov Sea Lowland, with the Description of the First Stygobiotic Microcrustacean Species of the Genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 from the Mouth of the Don River

Marín

Palatov

2023

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A new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae), co-existing with other stygobiotic amphipods, Diasynurella kiwi Marin and Palatov, 2023 and Pontonyx donensis (Martynov, 1919) (Crangonyctidae), is described from a small spring on a shore of Kiziterinka River in Rostov-on-Don City in the mouth of the Don River. Two of the three species in the studied spring, D. kiwi and the discovered Niphargus, belong to microcrustaceans not exceeding the total body size of 3 mm. The new species, Niphargus rostovi sp. nov., represents one of the smallest species within the genus and is mostly related to the Greek Niphargus karkabounasi Ntakis, Anastasiadou, Zakšek and Fišer, 2015, which is also not reaching the body size of 3 mm. One more related undescribed species is found on the Crete Island by the molecular genetic data. These species represent a separate phylogenetic lineage within the “carpathicus” species complex, which diverged from the congeners in the Late Miocene for more than 10 Mya. At the same time, the speciation within the ingroup started about 5–6 Mya, obviously correlating with the drainage of the Euxinian basin of the Eastern Paratethys, connecting the lower Don and southern Greece areas. Niphargus potamophilus Birštein, 1954 is also first recorded from the mouth of the Belbek River in the Crimean Peninsula, closing the known area from the Kuban River delta to Rostov-on-Don area and further along the western coast of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. Analysis of the recent records of long-time lineages of endemic/subterranean/stygobiotic animals unable to disperse for long distances assumed that glacial refugium existed at the mouth of the Don River, along with the South Caucasus (Colchis) and the southern Caspian (Hyrcania), where many species have survived several periods of glaciation since the late Miocene.

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“…В климатическом отношении существование залива отвечает второй половине микулинского межледниковья (МИС 5е) и бо ́льшей части курголовского стадиала ранневалдайского оледенения (МИС 5d), или, согласно [Kukla et al, 1997], эемскому межледниковью sensu lato. В Каспии в это время существовал изолированный тепловодный позднехазарский бассейн с соленостью от 10-12‰ в его северной части до 14-15‰ в южной [Yanina, 2020]; его уровень не превышал -10 м [Свиточ, 2014].…”

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Ingression of the Karangatian Sea Into the Manych Depression (Late Pleistocene)

Semikolennykh,

Kurbanov,

Yanina

2024

Lomonosov Geography Journal

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The work presents the results of paleogeographic study, including facies-lithological, malacofaunistic and luminescence analyses, of three boreholes core drilled in the central part of the Manych Depression, which made it possible to determine the time and stages of the existence of the Karangatian ingressive bay in the Manych Depression, and to correlate the latter with phases of the Karangatian transgression identified earlier on the basis of luminescence dating. Based on the results of the study it was found that: 1) the Karangatian Sea penetrated into the Manych Depression during the second phase of transgression in the time interval of ~120-110 ka years ago (MIS 5e-d). The salinity of the bay in the area of the modern Manych-Gudilo Lake reached 20-22‰; 2) the inflow of water of the Hyrcanian transgression of the Caspian into the bay in the central part of the Manych Depression took place 110-105 ka years ago, which corresponds to the third phase of the Karangatian transgression (MIS 5c). The brackish Caspian waters desalinated the Karangatian Bay in the area of the modern Manych-Gudilo Lake down to 14‰ and below; 3) the waters of the Karangatian Sea finally left the Manych Depression about 105 ka years ago (MIS 5c).

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Environmental Variability Of The Ponto-Caspian And Mediterranean Basins During The Last Climatic Macrocycle

Cited by 18 publications

References 86 publications

Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

Insights on the Existence of Ancient Glacial Refugee in the Northern Black/Azov Sea Lowland, with the Description of the First Stygobiotic Microcrustacean Species of the Genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 from the Mouth of the Don River

Ingression of the Karangatian Sea Into the Manych Depression (Late Pleistocene)

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