Paleoclimate Characterization and Intra-Site Correlation Using Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements: An Example from Konispol Cave, Albania

Ellwood, Brooks B.; Petruso, Karl M.; Harrold, Francis B.; Korkuti, Muzafer

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“…A synoptic profile of results from Trenches VIII and IX is reproduced in Figure 8 with a superposition of the sedimentary stratigraphy. Increased magnetic susceptibility is a measure of both accelerated pedogenesis and progressive postglacial warming (Ellwood et al, , 1996(Ellwood et al, , 1997. The Konispol profiles confirm a trend of enhanced susceptibility with decreasing age (i.e., elevated values higher up in the sequence shown in Figure 8).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…5 Vogel et al (1993), Talma and Vogel (1993), and Stuiver et al (1993). a One-sigma communication, K. Petruso, 1996. b Personal…”

Section: Sedimentary Sequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A long-term, magnetic susceptibility study was initiated at Konispol Cave in 1992 and results have been interpreted in paleoclimatic terms (Ellwood et al, 1993(Ellwood et al, , 1996(Ellwood et al, , 1997. A synoptic profile of results from Trenches VIII and IX is reproduced in Figure 8 with a superposition of the sedimentary stratigraphy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Magnetic susceptibility trends, sedimentary stratigraphy, and paleoclimatic gradients. Susceptibility curve is after Ellwood et al (1996: Figure 4). the magnetic susceptibility signal represents elevated readings for reworked soils flushed into the cave as sediments and that primary weathering (i.e., enrichment of iron) occurred during soil formation outside the cavern.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Excavations have disclosed sedimentation of the central cavern to depths of Ͼ Specialists' studies have included analyses of lithic technology and typology, 4.5 m. ceramics, faunal and floral resource exploitation, archeomagnetism, and paleovegetation (pollen) reconstructions (Ellwood et al 1993(Ellwood et al , 1996Petruso et al 1992Petruso et al , 1994. Sixteen radiocarbon dates document Upper Paleolithic through Bronze period human activity.…”

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Konispol Cave, southern Albania, and correlations with other Aegean caves occupied in the Late Quaternary

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1998

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“…5 Vogel et al (1993), Talma and Vogel (1993), and Stuiver et al (1993). a One-sigma communication, K. Petruso, 1996. b Personal…”

Section: Sedimentary Sequencesmentioning

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Konispol Cave, southern Albania, and correlations with other Aegean caves occupied in the Late Quaternary

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1998

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Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and site formation at Konispol Cave, Southwest Albania

Schuldenrein

2001

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Recent geoarchaeological investigations at Konispol Cave (Epirus), Albania concluded nearly a decade of interdisciplinary human ecological investigations. Questions of site formation, cave history, and environmental change were examined through microstratigraphic study and sedimentological analysis. Artifacts and occupation layers from Upper Paleolithic through Iron Age times were preserved in three discrete sediment complexes. Sedimentology supplemented by micromorphology isolated the principal characteristics of the sediment complexes. The chronology and site formation history was characterized sequentially by: (1) initial deposition and/or pedogenesis of basal sediment; (2) sheetflow, spring discharge, and ponding in the cavern; (3) rockfall, roof attrition, and solution weathering; (4) episodic flushing and reworking of allogenic sediment; (5) human activities; (6) autogenic reworking and diagenesis of human debris and slope sediment. The changing history of the cave is linked to regional paleoenvironmental and land use signals in Epirus and the greater Aegean from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the late Holocene. ᭧

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Macroscopic plant remains from Mediterranean caves and rockshelters: Avenues of interpretation

Hansen

2001

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Macrobotanical remains from caves and rockshelters in the Mediterranean provide substantial information about past human use of the sites as well as the surrounding environment. The modes of deposition of both fresh and carbonized plant material in the past are varied and it is not always possible to distinguish among the geogenic, biogenic, and anthropogenic processes. Once deposited, seeds and other plant parts may be preserved through desiccation, mineralization, or, most commonly, carbonization, depending on the environment of the cave or rockshelter as well as human and other animal activities. It is assumed that large quantities of carbonized remains are the result of human activity, and such dense deposits can be used as a measure of the intensity of occupation of the site. Where sufficient remains of wood charcoal are recovered from stratified deposits, it is possible to identify the local vegetation and changes in the surrounding plant communities through time. When compared to other environmental information, such as pollen studies, it is possible to obtain a more complete picture of the environment and to identify refugia for Mediterranean plants during the Pleistocene. In some cases, plants that are underrepresented or not at all represented in pollen spectra from lacustrine deposits may be recovered from the archaeological sites. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Paleoclimate Characterization and Intra-Site Correlation Using Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements: An Example from Konispol Cave, Albania

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Konispol Cave, southern Albania, and correlations with other Aegean caves occupied in the Late Quaternary

Konispol Cave, southern Albania, and correlations with other Aegean caves occupied in the Late Quaternary

Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and site formation at Konispol Cave, Southwest Albania

Macroscopic plant remains from Mediterranean caves and rockshelters: Avenues of interpretation

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