K.Yu. Iltsevich’s research while affiliated with St. Petersburg Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other places

... Most are found along the Desna/Dnepr River systems in present-day Ukraine and Russia (4)(5), and radiocarbon dating has indicated their usage~22-12 14 C thousand years ago (kya), corresponding to~26-14 cal yr BP, with the majority of dates between 15.5-14 14 C kya, corresponding to 18.8-17 cal yr BP (4)(5). The structures are usually associated with pit features potentially used for storing food or fresh bones, or discarding refuse, and indicate the past existence of open-air human settlements adapted to the steppe environment (6), while some studies also suggest these structures may have been used as ceremonial sites (7)(8). ...

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Ancient biomolecular analysis of 39 mammoth individuals from Kostenki 11-Ia elucidates Upper Palaeolithic human resource use

... The evolution of cave lions sensu lato, broadly defined as the temporal succession of chronotaxa and/or the emergence of vicariates in geographical space in Europe, Asia and North America, as well as their species rank, has long been debated, first in morphological and later in genetic and evolution terms (Schütt and Hemmer, 1978;Turner and Antón, 1980;Kurtén and Anderson, 1980;Kurtén, 1985Kurtén, , 2017Barycka, 2008;Argant and Brugal, 2017;Baryshnikov and Boeskorov, 2001;Burger et al., 2004;Sotnikova and Nikolskiy, 2006;Barnett et al., 2009Barnett et al., , 2016Mazák, 2010;Marciszak and Stefaniak, 2010;Baryshnikov, 2011;Stuart and Lister, 2011;Sotnikova and Foronova, 2014;Marciszak et al., 2014Marciszak et al., , 2019Ersmark et al., 2015;Ghezzo, 2018;Stanton et al., 2020;Hassanin et al., 2021;Villaluenga, 2022;Sablin et al., 2022;Sabol et al., 2022). ...

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Distribution history of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810))

... Before the wild boar appeared in the European fossil record close to the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary ( Van der Made et al., 2017;Cherin et al., 2020;Iannucci, 2022), S. strozzii Forsyth Major, 1881 occupied the territory for most of the Early Pleistocene, being recorded from several localities from Spain to western Asia (Mein et al., 1978;Van der Made and Moyà-Solà, 1989;Kostopoulos and Athanassiou, 2005;Cherin et al., 2018;Iannucci et al., 2020a;Iltsevich and Sablin, 2022). Sus strozzii was a large-sized suid closely related to the so-called warty pigs of Island Southeast Asia (Azzaroli, 1952(Azzaroli, , 1975Cherin et al., 2018;Iannucci et al., 2020a), which constitute a diverse and yet relatively poorly known contingent of species (Hardjasasmita, 1987). ...

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Sus strozzii (Suidae, Mammalia) from the historical locality of Quercia (Early Pleistocene, Italy)

... These sites include a mixture of localities with only lithics and/or a small number of bones with cut marks. Several sites in this group have been reported to have cut-marked bones, though the percentages of the assemblages showing these modifications is low (Masol= three cut-marked bones 31 , Liventsovka= one bone with multiple marks 32 , Muhkai 2= one bone with six marks 33 ). The only site predating Dmanisi with potential hominin remains is Longgudong at 2.01-1.87 ...

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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago

... Although the mammal assemblage is dominated by mammoth remains, bones of arctic fox were also found in large quantities. Other species present are marmot, beaver, hare, wolf, brown bear, cave lion, horse, reindeer, saiga and musk ox (Table 2) (Germonpré et al. 2008a;Sablin and Iltsevich 2021). In the next section we present descriptions of each mammoth bone structure found at the site and briefly discuss their significance for understanding mammoth hunting behaviours. ...

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The Epigravettian Site of Yudinovo, Russia: Mammoth Bone Structures as Ritualised Middens