| Institution: | (1) Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, ul. Bydgoska 10, 10-747 Olsztyn, Poland;(2) Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, PAS, ul. S awkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland;(3) Kaposvár University, Faculty of Animal Science, Guba S. u. 40, 7401 Kaposvár, Hungary;(4) Institute of Geophysics, Dept. of Polar and Marine Research, PAS, ul. Ksi cia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw, Poland;(5) Research Station of Ecological Agriculture and Preserve Animal Breeding, PAS, Popielno, 12-222 Wejsuny, Poland;(6) Natural Geography Department, Janus Pannonius University Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ifjuság u. 6, 7624 Pécs, Hungary |
| Abstract: | Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.) remains in Europe are well represented in Late Pleistocene sites in France, Germany, Ukraine, Poland and other countries. In a chalk mine at Chmielewo (near  niardwy Lake, NE Poland) four antlers were recovered. Radiocarbon assays date the fossils to the end of the Pleistocene. All antlers belong to male reindeer. One of the discovered specimens is an uncast antler of the tundra reindeer form, while the others are of the woodland reindeer form. The uncast antler has distinctly visible parieto-frontal fixation of the beam to the skull that confirms its parallel position in relation to the ground. |
