Mollusc-based paleoecological investigations of the Late Copper -Early Bronze Age earth mounds (kurgans) on the Great Hungarian Plain

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• 作者：Gábor Szilágyi (1)
  Pál Sümegi (2) (3)
  Dávid Molnár (2)
  Szilvia Sávai (2)
  
• 关键词：Holocene ; malacofauna ; kurgan ; steppe ; forest steppe
• 刊名：Central European Journal of Geosciences
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：5
• 期：4
• 页码：465-479
• 全文大小：2,216 KB
• 作者单位：Gábor Szilágyi (1)
  Pál Sümegi (2) (3)
  Dávid Molnár (2)
  Szilvia Sávai (2)
  
  1. Hortobágy National Park Directorate H-4024, Debrecen, Sumen u. 2., Hungary
  2. Department of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Szeged, H-6701, Szeged, P.O. Box: 658, Hungary
  3. Institute of Archaeology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1014, Budapest, úri u. 49, Hungary
  
• ISSN：1896-1517

文摘

The malacological material of the mound bodies (kurgans) of the Great Hungarian Plain indicates a mixed vegetation of dry and humid environments, developed on a mosaic of alkaline and chernozem soils in the period of the construction of the kurgan. The malacofauna that evolved in the upper soil horizon of the mound indicates the extremely dry environmental conditions of steppes, charaterized by the dominance of thermoxerophilous species. Dominant species of this kurgan are Chondrula tridens, Helicopsis striata, Granaria frumentum and Cepaea vindobonensis. The species composition shows that there are differences in the malacofauna of the Danube-Tisa Interfluves region compared to that of the lowlands east of River Tisza, indicated by the higher dominance of Granaria frumentum and Helicopsis striata in the former region. Following the construction of the kurgans an island-like, dry habitat developed on their surface, covered by black soil and populated by a steppe fauna, the composition of which is comparable mostly with the mollusc fauna of loess steppes and forest steppe, irrespectively of the floodplain or wind-blown sand character of the original surface.