Pollen analysis of coprolites from a late Pleistocene-Holocene cave deposit (Wezmeh Cave, west Iran): Insights into the late Pleistocene and late Holocene vegetation and flora of the central Zagros Mountains

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3394-3401

  Djamali, Morteza ^a   Biglari, Fereidoun ^b,c   Abdi, Kamyar ^d   Andrieu Ponel, Valérie ^a   de Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^a   Mashkour, Marjan ^e   Ponel, Philippe ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b National Museum of Iran   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Coprolites; Cousinia; Irano Turanian region; Late Quaternary; Middle East; Tulipa

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIOINDICATOR; CARNIVORE; COPROLITE; GLACIAL LANDFORM; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION;

IRAN; ZAGROS;

ASTERACEAE; COUSINIA; TULIPA;

EID: 80054097427     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Abdi K., Biglari F., Heydari S. Islamabad project 2001. Test excavations at Wezmeh Cave. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 2002, 34:171-194.
2. Akhani H. Plant biodiversity of Golestan National Park, Iran. Stapfia 1998, 53:1-411.
3. Bottema S. A late Quaternary pollen diagram from Lake Urmia (northwestern Iran). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1986, 47:241-261.
4. Bottema S. Prehistoric cereal gathering and farming in the Near East: the pollen evidence. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1992, 73:21-33.
5. Bottema S., Barkoudah Y. Modern pollen precipitation in Syria and Lebanon and its relation to vegetation. Pollen et Spores 1979, 21:427-480.
6. Carrión J., Riquelme J.A., Navarro C., Munuera M. Pollen in hyena coprolites reflects late glacial landscapes in southern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2001, 176:193-205.
7. Carrión J., Rodríguez E., Fuentes N., García-Antón M., Arribas A. Palynology of badger coprolites from central Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2005, 226:259-271.
8. Carrión J., Scott L., Marais E. Environmental implications of pollen spectra in bat droppings from southeastern Spain and potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2006, 140:175-186.
9. Carrión J., Scott L., Arribas A., Fuentes N., Gil-Romera G., Montoya E. Pleistocene landscapes in central Iberia inferred from pollen analysis of hyena coprolites. Journal of Quaternary Science 2007, 22:191-202.
10. Djamali, M., 2008. Changements paléoenvironnementaux en Iran au cours des deux derniers cycles climatiques (végétation-climat-anthropisation). Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Paul Cézanne, Marseille.
11. Djamali M., de Beaulieu J.-L., Shah-Hosseini M., Andrieu-Ponel V., Amini A., Akhani H., Leroy S.A.G., Stevens L., Alizadeh H., Ponel P., Brewer S. An Upper Pleistocene long pollen record from the Near East, the 100 m-long sequence of Lake Urmia, NW Iran. Quaternary Research 2008, 69:413-420.
12. Djamali M., Kürschner H., Akhani H., de Beaulieu J.-L., Amini A., Andrieu-Ponel V., Ponel P., Stevens L. Palaeoecological significance of the spores of the liverwort Riella (Riellaceae) in a late Pleistocene long pollen record from the hypersaline Lake Urmia, NW Iran. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2008, 152:66-73.
13. Djamali M., de Beaulieu J.-L., Campagne P., Akhani H., Andrieu-Ponel V., Ponel P., Leroy S. Modern pollen rain-vegetation relationships along a forest-steppe transect in the Golestan National Park, N-E Iran. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2009, 153:272-281.
14. Fernández Rodríguez C., Ramil Rego P., Martínez Cortizas A. Characterization and depositional evolution of hyena (Crocuta crocuta) coprolites from La Valina Cave (Northwest Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science 1995, 22:597-607.
15. Gonzáles-Sampériz P., Montes L., Utrilla P. Pollen in hyena coprolites from Gabasa Cave (northern Spain). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2003, 126:7-15.
16. Grimm E.C. TILIA and TGView Software. Ver 2.0.2. 2004/2005, Illinois State University, Illinois.
17. Guérin C., Faure M., Argant A., Argant J., Crégut-Bonnoure E., Debard E., Delson E., Eisenmann V., Hugueney M., Limondin-Lozouet N., Martin-Suarez E., Mein P., Mourer-Chauviré C., Parenti F., Pastre J.-F., Sen S., Valli A. Le gisement pliocène supérieur de Saint-Vallier (Dröme, France): synthèse biostratigraphique et paléoécologique. Geobios 2004, 37:S349-S360.
18. Klein J.-C. La végétation altitudinale de l'Alborz Central (Iran) 2001, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Tehran. second ed.
19. Knapp H.D. On the distribution of genus Cousinia (Compositae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 1987, 155:15-25.
20. Kosenko V.N. Contributions to the pollen morphology and taxonomy of the Liliaceae. Grana 1999, 38:20-30.
21. Mashkour M., Monchot H., Trinkaus E., Reyss J.-L., Biglari F., Bailon S., Heydari S., Abdi K. Carnivores and their prey in the Wezmeh Cave (Kermanshah, Iran): a late Pleistocene refuge in the Zagros. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2008, 19:678-694.
22. Mathew B. Iridaceae. Flora of Iraq 1985, vol. 8:226-257. Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Baghdad. C.C. Townsend, E. Guest (Eds.).
23. Mill R.R. Gynandriris Parl. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 1984, vol. 8:411-412. Edinburg University Press, Edinburgh. P.H. Davis, R.R. Mill, K. Tan (Eds.).
24. Moore P.D., Stevenson A.G. Pollen studies in dry environments with particular reference to Turan. Desertification and Development: Dry Land Ecology in Social Perspective 1982, 249-268. Academic Press, London. B. Spooner, H.S. Mani (Eds.).
25. Moore P.D., Webb J.A., Collinson M.E. Pollen Analysis 1991, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. second ed.
26. Reille M. Pollen et spores d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord 1992, Laboratoire de botanique historique et de palynologie, Marseille.
27. Reille M. Pollen et spores d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord 1995, Supplément 1. Laboratoire de botanique historique et de palynologie, Marseille.
28. Reille M. Pollen et spores d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord 1998, Supplément 2. Laboratoire de botanique historique et de palynologie, Marseille.
29. Reimer P.J., Baillie M.G.L., Bard E., Bayliss A., Beck J.W., Blackwell P.G., Bronk Ramsey C., Buck C.E., Burr G.S., Edwards R.L., Friedrich M., Grootes P.M., Guilderson T.P., Hajdas I., Heaton T.J., Hogg A.G., Hughen K.A., Kaiser K.F., Kromer B., McCormac F.G., Manning S.W., Reimer R.W., Richards D.A., Southon J.R., Talamo S., Turney C.S.M., van der Plicht J., Weyhenmeyer C.E. IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0-50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 2009, 51(4):1111-1150.
30. Rivas-Martínez S., Sánchez-Mata D., Costa M. Boreal and western temperate forest vegetation (syntaxonomical synopsis of the potential natural plant communities of North America II). Itinera Geobotanica 1999, 12:3-311.
31. Scott L. Pollen analysis of hyena coprolites and sediments from Equus Cave, Taung, southern Kalahari. Quaternary Research 1987, 28:144-156.
32. Scott L., Fernández-Jalvo Y., Carrión J., Brink J. Preservation and interpretation of pollen in hyena coprolites: taphonomic observations from Spain and southern Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 2003, 39:83-91.
33. Stockmarr J. Tablets with spores used in absolute pollen analysis. Pollen et Spores 1971, 13:615-621.
34. Trinkaus E., Biglari F., Mashkour M., Monchot H., Reyss J.L., Rougier H., Heydari S., Abdi K. Late Pleistocene human remains from Wezmeh Cave, western Iran. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2008, 135:371-378.
35. van Zeist W. Late Quaternary vegetation history of western Iran. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1967, 2:301-311.
36. van Zeist W., Bottema S. Palynological investigations in western Iran. Palaeohistoria 1977, 19:19-85.
37. van Zeist W., Timmers R.W., Bottema S. Studies of modern and Holocene pollen precipitation in southeastern Turkey. Palaeohistoria 1970, 14:19-39.
38. van Zeist W., Woldring H., Stapert D. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate of southwestern Turkey. Palaeohistoria 1975, 17:53-143.
39. Vivent D. Analyses polliniques de coprolites d'hyènes de deux sites paléolithiques d'Auvergne (Saint Hippolyte, Puy-de-Dôme et Châtelperron, Allier). Revue d'Archéologie du centre de la France 1989, 28:229-235.
40. Wasylikowa K. Paleoecology of Lake Zeribar, Iran, in the Pleniglacial, late Glacial, and Holocene reconstructed from plant macrofossils. The Holocene 2005, 15:720-735.
41. Wright H.E., McAndrews J.H., van Zeist W. Modern pollen rain in western Iran, and its relation to plant geography and Quaternary vegetational history. Journal of Ecology 1967, 55:415-443.
42. Zohary M. Geobotanical Foundations of the Middle East 1973, vol. 2. Fischer, Stuttgart.
43. Zohary D., Hopf M. Domestication of Plants in the Old World 1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford. second ed.