FRAGMENTS OF ICE AGE ENVIRONMENTS

Contents

• To our dear collegue Dr Ivan Turk on his jubilee (Anton VELUŠČEK)
• The mastodon find from Kicar near Ptuj (Vasja MIKUŽ and Jernej PAVŠIČ)
• Fossil and subfossil remains of Capra ibex, L. from Salzofenhöhle (Upper Austria) and the Eastern Alpine region (Martina PACHER)
• The mammoth tusk remains from the Kamnica gravel pit near Drnovo in the Krka river basin (Jernej PAVŠIČ and Vasja MIKUŽ)
• Late Pleistocene lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) skull and other postcranial remains from the Sloup Cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic (Cajus G. DIEDRICH)
• Late Pleistocene hyaena Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) from Baranica Cave (southeast Serbia): competition for a den site (Vesna DIMITRIJEVIÆ)
• Sex and size of the Krapina save bears (Preston T MIRACLE)
• Diet, physiology and environment of the cave bear: a biogeochemical study (Aurora GRANDAL-D’ANGLADE, Marta PÉREZ-RAMA and Daniel FERNÁNDEZ-MOSQUERA)
• Statistical analysis on metapodial bones of living brown bears regarding gender differences in males and females (Kerstin ATHEN)
• Recent brown bear biology as a tool to study the cave bear (Đuro HUBER and Goran GUŽVICA)
• Big climatic changes revealed by tiny fossils. Palaeoenvironment at the boundary between the Early and Middle Würm in the surroundings of Divje babe I (W Slovenia) (Borut TOŠKAN and Janez DIRJEC)
• Bears and sediments at Caverna degli Orsi/Medvedja jama (Trieste, Italy) (Giovanni BOSCHIAN and Annamaria DE SANTIS)
• Climatostratigraphic classification of sediments in the western sector of Potočka zijalka, based on reconstruction of snow conditions at the time of their deposition (Janez TURK)
• Palaeobotanical research at Palaeolithic sites in Slovenia (Metka CULIBERG)
• Lateglacial vegetation at Lake Bled and Griblje marsh (Slovenia): a comparison of (in Last Glacial Maximum) glaciated and non-glaciated landscapes (Maja ANDRIČ)
• Neanderthal flute from Divje babe I: old and new findings (Matija TURK and Ljuben DIMKAROSKI)
• Cave bear skeleton and wild boar skull from the cave of Mokriška jama (Dragan BOŽIČ)
• List of contributors

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2011, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 21), 280 pages, 44 b-w photographs, 10 drawings, 52 tables, 71 graphs and 9 maps, 20 x 29 cm hardcover, ISBN 978-961-254-257-3.

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