TY - JOUR AU - Sebe, Krisztina AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Szentesi, Zoltán AU - Surányi, Gergely AU - Novothny, Ágnes AU - Pandolfi, Luca TI - New Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (SW Hungary): Siklós and Palkonya JF - FRAGMENTA PALAEONTOLOGICA HUNGARICA J2 - FRAGM PALAEONTOL HUNG VL - 38 PY - 2023 SP - 75 EP - 94 PG - 20 SN - 1586-930X DO - 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2023.38.75 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34134323 ID - 34134323 AB - The Villány Hills in SW Hungary have the richest archive of Pliocene–Quaternary vertebrate faunas in the Pannonian Basin, mostly in karstic cavities. Here we present three new sites that extend the list of Pleistocene vertebrate locations for the area and add information to the evolution history of the region. In the northern part of the Siklós quarry, bone breccia was found coming from fissures in Jurassic or Cretaceous limestones. Its lithofacies and fossil content are similar to those of other well-known Plio-Pleistocene karst infills of the region. As it contained mostly snake vertebrae, its age could not be constrained precisely. In the southern part of the same quarry, two vertical shaft s were discovered, which are unusual in several respects. Th ey formed in a Middle Triassic dolomite succession, a rock type generally not prone to karstification. Th ey might have been created by gravitational deformation of the relatively steep slope, probably at diff erent times. One of them was closed from above and contained fl owstones precipitated during the late Middle Pleistocene, during the late Rissian MIS7 interglacial. The other one was filled from above with loess, rock fragments and remains of large mammals – Equus cf. ferus, Bos primigenius and Coelodonta antiquitatis –, possibly between 140–40 ka, during one of the stadials of the Weichselian or the latest Saalian. The site shows that fossil-bearing cavities could also form in lithologies not favourable for karstification, which then trapped fossils in a similar way karstic cavities do. In contrast with the previous two and with most of the other known vertebrate sites of the Villány Hills, the Palkonya outcrop is not a karst cavity fill but was deposited on the (palaeo)surface. Bison sp., possibly B. schoetensacki remains were found between the Triassic basement and Quaternary slope sediments, and within the latter succession. The Bison bones are probably Middle Pleistocene or late Early Pleistocene, older than ~300 ka. The overlying slope sediments originate from the reworking of various older deposits. Th ey were covered with loess in the Weichselian (~22 ka ago), then again with slope deposits. The abundance of bones in and around the outcrop suggests that this site acted as a fossil trap as well. Bones probably enriched in the sediments during reworking of older deposits. In cold periods, loess deposition decreased (subdued) the relief through infilling the depressions. With 21 figures and 3 tables. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Major, István AU - Lisztes-Szabó, Zsuzsa AU - Magyari, Enikő Katalin AU - Szabó, Bence AU - Pandolfi, Luca AU - Borel, Antony AU - Futó, István AU - Horváth, Anikó AU - Kiss, Gabriella Ilona AU - Molnár, Mihály AU - Csík, Attila AU - Markó, András TI - Multi‐disciplinary study of a late Pleistocene woolly rhinoceros found in the Pannonian Basin and implications for the contemporaneous palaeoenvironment JF - JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE J2 - J QUATERNARY SCI VL - 38 PY - 2023 IS - 7 SP - 1159 EP - 1170 PG - 12 SN - 0267-8179 DO - 10.1002/jqs.3533 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33786764 ID - 33786764 N1 - Hungarian Natural History Museum Department of Palaeontology and Geology, Budapest, Hungary International Radiocarbon AMS Competence and Training Center (INTERACT), Institute for Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology, Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Palaeontology, Budapest, Hungary Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Campus di Macchia Romana, Potenza, Italy Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique (HNHP UMR-7194, MNHN, CNRS, UPVD), Alliance Sorbonne Université, Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France Institute of Archeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Laboratory of Material Science, Institute for Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 26 June 2023 Correspondence Address: Major, I.; International Radiocarbon AMS Competence and Training Center (INTERACT), Hungary; email: imajor@atomki.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Magyari, Enikő Katalin AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Major, István AU - Lengyel, György AU - Pál, Ilona AU - Virág, Attila AU - Korponai, János AU - Haliuc, Aritina AU - Szabó, Zoltán AU - Pazonyi, Piroska TI - Mammal extinction facilitated biome shift and human population change during the last glacial termination in East-Central Europe JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 12 PY - 2022 IS - 1 PG - 14 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-10714-x UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32795556 ID - 32795556 N1 - A publikáció a Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem 2020. évi Tématerületi Kiválóság Program keretében, a Fenntartható biztonság és társadalmi környezet elnevezésű projekt támogatásával valósult meg, az Innovációs és Technológiai Minisztérium Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Alapból nyújtott támogatásával, a Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal által kibocsátott támogatói okirat alapján. AB - The study of local extinction times, together with the associated environmental and human population changes in the last glacial termination, provides insights into the causes of mega- and microfauna extinctions. In East-Central (EC) Europe, groups of Palaeolithic humans were present throughout the last glacial maximum, but disappeared suddenly around 15,200 cal BP. In this study cave sediment profiles dated using radiocarbon techniques and a large set of mammal bones dated directly by AMS 14C were used to determine local extinction times. These were, in turn, compared to changes in the total megafauna population of EC Europe derived from coprophilous fungi, the Epigravettian population decline, quantitative climate models, pollen and plant macrofossil inferred climate, as well as to biome reconstructions. The results suggest that the population size of large herbivores decreased in the area after 17,700 cal BP, when temperate tree abundance and warm continental steppe cover both increased in the lowlands. Boreal forest expansion started around 16,200 cal BP. Cave sediments show the decline of narrow-headed vole and arctic lemming populations specifically associated with a tundra environment at the same time and the expansion of the common vole, an inhabitant of steppes. The last dated appearance of arctic lemming was at ~ 16,640 cal BP, while that of the narrow-headed vole at ~ 13,340, and the estimated extinction time of woolly mammoth was either at 13,830 (GRIWM) or 15,210 (PHASE), and reindeer at 11,860 (GRIWM) or 12,550 cal BP (PHASE). The population decline of the large herbivore fauna slightly preceded changes in terrestrial vegetation, and likely facilitated it via a reduction in the intensity of grazing and the concomitant accumulation of plant biomass. Furthermore, it is possible to conclude that the Late Epigravettian population had high degree of quarry-fidelity; they left the basin when these mammals vanished. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Lengyel, György AU - Bárány, Annamária AU - Béres, Sándor AU - Cserpák, F AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Major, István AU - Molnár, Mihály AU - Nadachowski, A AU - Nemergut, A AU - Svoboda, J AU - Verpoorte, A AU - Wojtal, P AU - Wilczyński, J TI - The Epigravettian chronology and the human population of eastern Central Europe during MIS2 JF - QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS J2 - QUATERN SCI REV VL - 271 PY - 2021 PG - 27 SN - 0277-3791 DO - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107187 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32249517 ID - 32249517 N1 - University of Miskolc, Miskolc-Egyetemváros3515, Hungary Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 17 Sławkowska, Kraków, 31-016, Poland Hungarian National Museum, 14–16 Múzeum Krt, Budapest, 1088, Hungary Independent Researcher, 33 Bokros, Budakalász, 2011, Hungary Independent Researcher, 7. 4/12 Sárpatak, Budapest, 1048, Hungary Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2–6 Ludovika tér, Budapest, 1083, Hungary Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre, Institute for Nuclear Research, 18/C Bem tér, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary Institute of Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2 Akademická 949 21, Nitra, Slovakia Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Čechyňská 19, Brno, 60200, Czech Republic Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9514, RA Leiden, 2300, Netherlands Export Date: 11 October 2021 CODEN: QSRED Correspondence Address: Lengyel, G.; University of Miskolc, Miskolc-Egyetemváros, Hungary; email: bolengyu@uni-miskolc.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Dulai, Alfréd AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Szives, Ottilia TI - A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum Őslénytani és Földtani Tárának Vizsgálatiminta Gyűjteménye JF - ANNALES MUSEI HISTORICO-NATURALIS HUNGARICI J2 - ANNLS MUS HIST-NAT HUNG VL - 112 PY - 2020 SP - 69 EP - 83 PG - 15 SN - 0521-4726 DO - 10.53019/AnnlsMusHistNatHung.2020.112.69 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32074189 ID - 32074189 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kowalik, Nina AU - Anczkiewicz, Robert AU - Wilczynski, Jaroslaw AU - Wojtal, Piotr AU - Mueller, Wolfgang AU - Bondioli, Luca AU - Nava, Alessia AU - Gasparik, Mihály TI - Tracing human mobility in central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic using sub-seasonally resolved Sr isotope records in ornaments JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 10 PY - 2020 IS - 1 PG - 14 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-020-67017-2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31477897 ID - 31477897 AB - Mobility of people and goods during the Upper Paleolithic has proven difficult to reconstruct given the relative rareness of remains. Nevertheless, archaeological contexts like the Late Pleistocene horizon of Borsuka Cave (Southern Poland) represent a unique opportunity to explore patterns of objects' transportation across Central Europe. We investigated the origin of four ornaments made of European elk (Alces alces L.) incisors recovered at Borsuka Cave - the oldest known burial site in Poland, possibly a child grave. Laser-ablation plasma source mass spectrometric analyses of trace elements and Sr isotopic compositions revealed that one elk was roaming within a geologically uniform area while the others changed their pastures during their lifetimes. The non-local origin of the elk teeth is inferred from their exotic Sr isotopic compositions and the lack of evidence for the presence of elk in this territory during the Pleistocene. Instead, the elks' Sr isotopic composition show good agreement with sites near the Austria-Slovakia border region and northern Hungary, similar to 250km away from the study site. We argue that the artefacts were most likely brought to Borsuka Cave by humans or by a network of exchange, so far never reported in the time range 32.5-28.8 ka cal BP for Southern Poland. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Magyari, Enikő Katalin AU - Pazonyi, Piroska AU - Pál, Ilona AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Virág, Attila AU - Vincze, Ildikó AU - Korponai, János AU - Szabó, Zoltán AU - Major, István TI - Megafauna extinction, faunal turnover, terrestrial vegetation and climate change during the Last Glacial termination in Hungary: leads and lags T2 - 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) PY - 2019 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31391948 ID - 31391948 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Major, István AU - Futó, István AU - Dani, János AU - Cserpák-Laczi, Orsolya AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Jull, Timothy AJ AU - Molnár, Mihály TI - Assessment and Development of Bone Preparation for Radiocarbon Dating at HEKAL JF - RADIOCARBON J2 - RADIOCARBON VL - 61 PY - 2019 IS - 5 SP - 1551 EP - 1561 PG - 11 SN - 0033-8222 DO - 10.1017/RDC.2019.60 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30899044 ID - 30899044 N1 - Part number: 1 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Dulai, Alfréd AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Szentesi, Zoltán AU - Pálfy, József TI - First supplement to the catalogue of invertebrate and vertebrate palaeontological type specimens of the Hungarian Natural History Museum: 2008–2018 JF - FRAGMENTA PALAEONTOLOGICA HUNGARICA J2 - FRAGM PALAEONTOL HUNG VL - 35 PY - 2018 SP - 3 EP - 59 PG - 57 SN - 1586-930X DO - 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2018.35.3 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30649758 ID - 30649758 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Pazonyi, Piroska TI - The macromammal remains and revised faunal list of the Somssich Hill 2 locality (late Early Pleistocene, Hungary) and the Epivillafranchian faunal change JF - FRAGMENTA PALAEONTOLOGICA HUNGARICA J2 - FRAGM PALAEONTOL HUNG VL - 35 PY - 2018 SP - 153 EP - 178 PG - 26 SN - 1586-930X DO - 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2018.35.153 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30624488 ID - 30624488 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -