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Paleoanthropological Implications of the Peştera cu Oase and Its Contents
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The initial discovery and exploration of the Pe ş tera cu
Oase by Ş . Milota, L. Sarcin ă , and A. B î lg ă r in early 2002
was in the context of the exploration and documentation
of the Plopa-Ponor karstic cave system (Chapter 2).
However, with the discovery of a human mandible on
the surface of (what became) the Sala Mandibulei, its subsequent
removal and eventual dating to ~35 ka 14C BP
(~40.4 ka cal BP) by fall 2002, the focus of the work in the
Pe ş tera cu Oase became a paleoanthropological one. This
shift in focus led to the 2003 short fi eld season with the
discovery of the Oase 2 facial skeleton and partial neurocranium
and then to the substantial 2004 and 2005 fi eld
seasons, with the excavation of the Panta Str ă mo ş ilor and
the sampling and mapping of the other passages above
and below it (Chapter 3). Indeed, the decision to excavate
in the Panta Str ă mo ş ilor and to leave the other passages
largely undisturbed was made in part with the goal
of recovering the remainder of the Oase 2 cranium and
possibly other elements of the Oase 1 and 2 skeletons. It
was also oriented toward being able to determine how the
human remains came to be included among the plethora
of cave bear bones in the cave.
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Trinkaus, E., & Zilhão, J. (2013). Paleoanthropological Implications of the Peştera cu Oase and Its Contents. In E. Trinkaus, S. Constantin, & J. Zilhão (Eds.), Life and Death at the Peştera cu Oase: A Setting for Modern Human Emergence in Europe (pp. 389-400). Oxford: Oxford University Press.