Sophie's cave (Germany)-- a late Pleistocene cave bear den / authored by Cajus G. Diedrich, PaleoLogic, Research Institute.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diedrich, Cajus G., author.

Series:

Famous Planet Earth Caves

Famous planet earth caves ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caves--Germany.

Caves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sharjah : Bentham Science Publishers, Limited, [2015]

Summary:

Famous Planet Earth Caves - The new series presents important caves or rock shelters in any kind of rock types all over the world. Each book focuses on a single cave presentation covering different and most important disciplines of a cave: Geology (e.g. cave genesis sedimentology speleothems) such as Hydrogeology (e.g. speleothems for climate reconstructions aquifer reconstructions) Paleontology (e.g. cave bear or carnivore dens) Archeology (e.g. Palaeolithic to Medieval camp or burial sites) and modern Biology (e.g. bat caves). The books are scientific chaptered monographs sometimes of show caves but often of non- or difficult to access caves. The well-illustrated books are written in a mixed scientific and popular scientific way for a better understanding and larger readership especially speleologists and natural scientists all over the world.

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; COLLECTIONS ; CONTENT ; INTRODUCTION ; LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR DENS IN UPPER FRANCONIA (SOUTHERN GERMANY); THE SOPHIE'S CAVE CAVE BEAR DEN BESIDES RABENSTEIN CASTLE; Sophie's Cave Discovery and History; The New Cave Research; Renaming of the Confusing Cave Part Names; The Oldest Preserved Show Cave Lighting System Ceramic Lamps in Germany; Writing Tools and Militaria of the Bavarian King Ludwigs's I Time; REFERENCES; GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE ROCKS IN UPPER FRANCONIA ; GENERAL GEOLOGY OF CAVE-RICH UPPER FRANCONIA

The White-Jura Dolomite Reef-Lagoon Rocks (155-150 My)The Sponge Patch Reef Fossils from Sophie's Cave; REFERENCES; PLIO- TO MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTOLOGY, CAVE GENESIS AND AILSBACH VALLEY GEOMORPHOLOGY ; PLIOCENE/EARLY PLEISTOCENE (5.3-1.8 MY) - CAVE GENESIS/ REFILL; Earth Quake Signs in Sediments; LATE EARLY PLEISTOCENE (1.8-0.8 MY)? - FURTHER CAVE REFILL; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE (780.000-200.000 BP) - ANTE-AILSBACH RIVER TERRACE; The Oldest Middle Pleistocene Marten Footprints - First Small Carnivore Den; LATE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE (?200.000-113.000 BP) - MASSIVE EROSION; REFERENCES

THE EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR DEN EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (113.000-32.000 BP, MIS 5D-3) - FIRST CAVE BEAR DEN; The Small Cave Bear Subspecies Composite Skeleton "Benno"; Small Cave Bear Carcasses and Bones from the Bear's Passage; Small Cave Bear Carcasses and Bones from the Reindeer Hall (Bone Field); Cave Bear Carcasses, Bones and Hibernation Nests in the Millionary Hall; Dating of the Cave Bear Population of the Bear's Passage, Reindeer Hall/Millionary Hall; Pathologies and Illnesses of Small Cave Bears; REFERENCES

LION, HYENA WOLF, WEASEL AND PORCUPINE CAVE DWELLERS - CAVE BEAR KILLERS AND SCAVENGERS CARCASS AND BONE TAPHONOMY OF SMALL CAVE BEARS; Ice Age Steppe Lions as Cave Bear Killers and Soft Tissue Feeders; Ice Age Spotted Hyenas as Cave Bear Carcass Decomposers and Bone Crushers; The Wolf Den and Faecal Area in the Bear's Passage; WEASEL SKELETON IN THE BEAR'S PASSAGE - AN ICE AGE WEASEL DEN WITHIN THE SOPHIE'S CAVE; THE LAST PORCUPINES OF EUROPE; THE EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (MIS 5D-3) BOREAL FOREST PREDATORS AND GUILD; REFERENCES

THE FINAL LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR AND SPORADIC CARNIVORE (HYENA AND WOLF) DEN FINAL MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (32.000-24.000 BP, MIS 3-2) - LARGEST CAVE BEARS; The Largest Cave Bear Species Ursus Ingressus ; Lions as Main Cave Bear Cub Killers; The Ice Age Spotted Hyena Den Ahornloch Hall; A New Sporadic Wolf Den; FINAL LATE PLEISTOCENE (AROUND 19.000 BP, MIS 2) - LAST MAXIMUM GLACIATION (LGM) ; REFERENCES; LATE PLEISTOCENE ARCHAEOLOGY ; NEANDERTHALS IN UPPER FRANCONIA; FIRST CAVE BEAR HUNTERS - LATE PALAEOLITHIC EARLY GRAVETTIANS (AROUND 30.000 BP)

Early Gravettian Shamanic Sanctuary Around 30.000 BP

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2016).

ISBN:

1-68108-000-1

OCLC:

951065177