Geomorphological evolution of the Petrovaradin Fortress Palaeolithic site (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Slobodan B. Marković; Jef Vandenberghe; Thomas Stevens; Dušan Mihailović; Milivoj B. Gavrilov; Milica G. Radaković; Christian Zeeden; Igor Obreht; Zoran M. Perić; Janina J. Nett; Frank Lehmkuhl

doi:10.1017/qua.2020.88

Geomorphological evolution of the Petrovaradin Fortress Palaeolithic site (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Slobodan B. Marković^*, Jef Vandenberghe, Thomas Stevens, Dušan Mihailović, Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Milica G. Radaković, Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Zoran M. Perić, Janina J. Nett, Frank Lehmkuhl

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Two phases of archaeological investigation were performed in the Novi Sad City Museum at Petrovaradin Fortress. In this study, we summarize the results of geo-archaeological investigations of the second period of excavation inside the Novi Sad City Museum building. The fortress is situated on a Danube terrace with the top of the bedrock at ca.123 m asl. The investigated section consists of undisturbed fine-sandy silt. The grain-size distribution of the sediments indicates clearly its alluvial reworking but shows also a general similarity with typical primary loess in the region. All analyzed proxies indicate slightly stronger weathering in the upper part of the profile. Luminescence ages suggest that the investigated sequence covers the last glacial period and the terrace presumably formed during MIS 4. Subsequently, the Danube started its incision at the start of the next warmer period (MIS 3) onward. This terrace age and elevation enable us to derive an uplift rate of the terrace of ca. 0.73 mm/a for the last 60 ka, which seems to increase towards the present. Basal loessic material, in which artifacts occur, likely in the reworked position, indicate that the area close to today's Petrovaradin Fortress was already inhabited in MIS 5.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-34
Number of pages	14
Journal	Quaternary Research
Volume	103
Early online date	23 Nov 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.88
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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The authors are very grateful to Claire Tye (Gallant), Radovan Bunardžić and MihajloLesjak for help during the fieldwork, and to Vladica Cvetković for stimulating discussion. Slobodan Marković, Milivoj Gavrilov and Milica Radaković were supported by grant # 176020, financed by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and the First Program of the Chinese-Serbian Developing Projects (Project title: “A Comparative Study of Past Climate Change in the East Asian Monsoon Region and the Westerly Zone using Multiple Timescales”). Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Janina Nett and Frank Lehmkuhl acknowledge funding by the CRC 806 “Our Way to Europe”, subproject B1 – “The Eastern Trajectory: Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula” – by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer 57444011 – SFB 806. Thomas Stevens gratefully acknowledges the support of the Swedish Research Council (2017-03888). The work of Dušan Mihailović was supported by Ministry of Culture and Information, and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (project # 177023).

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The authors are very grateful to Claire Tye (Gallant), Radovan Bunardžić and MihajloLesjak for help during the fieldwork, and to Vladica Cvetković for stimulating discussion. Slobodan Marković, Milivoj Gavrilov and Milica Radaković were supported by grant # 176020, financed by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and the First Program of the Chinese-Serbian Developing Projects (Project title: “A Comparative Study of Past Climate Change in the East Asian Monsoon Region and the Westerly Zone using Multiple Timescales”). Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Janina Nett and Frank Lehmkuhl acknowledge funding by the CRC 806 “Our Way to Europe”, subproject B1 – “The Eastern Trajectory: Last Glacial Palaeogeography and Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and of the Balkan Peninsula” – by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer 57444011 – SFB 806. Thomas Stevens gratefully acknowledges the support of the Swedish Research Council (2017-03888). The work of Dušan Mihailović was supported by Ministry of Culture and Information, and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (project # 177023).

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Ministry of Culture and Information
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	57444011 – SFB 806
Vetenskapsrådet	2017-03888
Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja	177023

Keywords

Danube
Fruška Gora Mountain
Last glacial
Loess
Paleolithic
Petrovaradin
Tectonic uplift

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