Geochemical data from loess records at the archaeological site Kammern-Grubgraben, Lower Austria

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Two loess sections from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kammern-Grubgraben (Lower Austria) were analysed to test geochemical proxies, as well as radiocarbon data of different components for their reliability and consistency in an archaeological context. Only a reliable basal age (28.9  27.8 ka cal BP) was obtained from charcoal fragments derived from a tundra gley underlying the archaeological horizons and assigned to Greenland Interstadials 3 or 4. Grain size, organic and inorganic geochemistry, and stable isotopes of the fine organic fraction (13Corg) and of rhizoconcretions (13C, 18O) were analysed to provide information on palaeoenvironmental conditions. Low-resolution geochemical and sedimentological analyses document a humidity-related variability, while 13Corg values indicate a predominant C3 vegetation. High-resolution elemental variations derived from X-ray fluorescence scanning exhibit increasing Ca and decreasing Fe and Ti values indicating drier conditions towards the top. Secondary pedogenic carbonate concretions provide post-sedimentary (Holocene) ages and are not suitable for assessing climate and environmental changes for the Palaeolithic.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943245
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-23-2022
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Creator Reiss, Lilian ORCID logo; Stüwe, Christian; Einwögerer, Thomas; Händel, Marc ORCID logo; Maier, Andreas; Meng, Stefan ORCID logo; Pasda, Kerstin ORCID logo; Simon, Ulrich (ORCID: 0000-0002-0195-467X); Zolitschka, Bernd ORCID logo; Mayr, Christoph ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 424736737 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/424736737 Success, limits and failure of subsistence strategies in eastern Central Europe during the early Gravettian and the Last Glacial Maximum
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 4 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.720 LON, 48.480 LAT)