ZALOG NEAR VERD. Stone Age hunters' camp at the western edge of the Ljubljansko barje

Metka CULIBERG

Palaeobotanic research of the sediments

Abstract

The article presents the results of palynological research of sediments from the Stone Age site of Zalog near Verd. The relatively short segment of the profi le covered the change in vegetation that indicates two different geochronological phases: the Late Glacial and the Early Holocene. The typical cold-period vegetation with the dominating pine is succeeded immediately and without a gradual transition by a generically varied deciduous forest. Primary forest phases are thus missing. This undoubtedly indicates an extensive vegetational hiatus, probably the consequence of a disturbance during sedimentation.

Key words: Slovenia, the Ljubljansko barje, Mesolithic, palynology

The Zalog near Verd pollen diagram.

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2006, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 11), 233 pp., 37 drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 99 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6568-57-4.

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