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NUMBER 89 151<br />

FIGURE 10.—Area of sympatry of seabirds from Creag Nan Uamh, Scotland (Somateria mollissima, Alle alle).<br />

(•=fossil site.)<br />

locene (Stuart, 1983). It contains Somateria mollissima and Alle central Mediterranean even during this final cold snap of the<br />

alle and indicates conditions similar to or slightly colder than at Pleistocene (Figure 11).<br />

present (Figure 10). Other faunal elements from the site, such as There are a few more Mediterranean faunas that are either<br />

Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus), support this conclusion. late glacial or early Holocene: Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, lay­<br />

The fauna from layer C in Grotta Romanelli in Apulia, Italy ers A2 {Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Fratercula arctica) and B1<br />

{Puffinus spp., Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Rissa tridactyla, Pin­ {Puffinus puffinus, Fratercula arctica); Cueva de Nerja, Spain,<br />

guinus impennis), which is securely dated to the middle part of epipaleolithic (EP) layers {Calonectris diomedea, Puffinus gri­<br />

Dryas 3, has been published only in part (Cassoli et al., 1979), seus, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Morus bassanus, Catharacta<br />

but it indicates that cool "Atlantic" conditions prevailed in the skua, Uria aalge, Pinguinus impennis) dated to 13,350-8770

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