The Environment of the Ancient Fossil Man in the Caucasus (USSR) [Le milieu de l'homme fossile ancien dans le Caucase [URSS)].

Résumé

On the territory of Dmanisi, medieval ancient town (East Georgia, 100 km south from Tbilisi) a rich locality of fossil vertebrates has been discovered. According to preliminary data there were the following animals there: Archidiskodon meridionalis, Equus aff. altidens, Equus ex gr. stenonis, Dicerorhinus etruscus etruscus, Ursus etruscus, Canis cf. etruscus, Panthera sp., Dama cf. nestii, Cervidae gen., Eobison sp., Marmotinae gen., Cricetulus sp. and others. This complex correponds must likely to the late Apsheronian or the lowest part of Bakuian (the Early Galerian of the continental Cainozoic scale) and makes up for a substantial deficiency in our knowledge about the Late Cainozoic history of terrestrial mammals of Causcasus. The presence of Ashelian Industry in the bonebearing layers makes this complex of Mammals the most interesting.