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Settlement intensity of humans through Middle and Upper Pleistocene in Vindija cave, northwestern Croatia

Study of paleoecological relationships of large fossil carnivores and possibility of human influence to the structure of its populations also included the analysis of burned bones frequency in layers of Vindija cave. The purposes of investigation was confirmation of thesis about continual settlement by humans in Vindija cave during the all climatic stages in Middle- and Upper-pleistocene, and possibility of supplement by consideration of settlement intensity. Frequency analysis of burned bones was made with hypothesis that the quantitative variability of burned bones was result of intensity of human settlement. Higher percentages of burned bones are registrated in warmer stages and lower percentages in colder stages according to till now known climatic scheme. The settlement intensity of humans in Vindija cave was the highest during the sedimentation of layers "G", "H" and "I", e.g. from Würm 1/2 to Würm 2/3, where the skeletal remains of neanderthals were founded.

settlement intensity; burnt bones; Pleistocene; Vindija cave; Croatia

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