The cave Za Hájovnou is a former sinkhole. It was active from the Early Pleistocene until the beginning of the Cromerian Interglacials complex. This publication assesses the sediments of the two main corridors, the Vykopaná chodba and the Narozeninová chodba. Only two exposures have been found with…

Clastic cave deposits exposed in Za Hájovnou Cave in Javoříčko Karst were recently dated using a superconducting rock magnetometer evice. Normal polarities identified in the upper portion of the sedimentary fill are interpreted as a normal Brunhes Chron imprint (sediments are younger than 781 ka).…

The sediments of profiles ZH P-2, 5, 7, 8b, 9, 10 and 11 from Za Hájovnou Cave (Javoříčko Karst) were studied from a palynological point of view. Most of layers (except layer 1c/ZH P-10, layer 7e /ZH P-2) were paleontologically dated as Holsteinian Interglacial. The alynospectra confirmed the mild…

Remains of fossil voles and lemmings (Arvicolinae) in two profiles in Za Hájovnou Cave, ZH P-2 (Komín I) and ZH P-8b (Narozeninová chodba, Area A), were preliminarily investigated. The assemblages from ZH P-2 layers 7 and 6 indicate Q3 biozone. Layer 7 may have been deposited during the lower part…

Isolated finds of a fossil hamster from Za Hájovnou Cave are attributed to the Middle Pleistocene taxon Cricetus cf. runtonensis NEWTON, 1909 on the basis of morphometric data. Their occurrence within the rusty deposits of the Kopaná chodba cave section probably indicates a rather humid and mild…

Based on basic morphometric analysis, 64 fossil remains of lion-like felids from Middle Pleistocene deposits of Za Hájovnou Cave, dated to the period around MIS 9, are attributed to the species Panthera fossilis (REICHENAU, 1906). Within the studied sample, two groups can be preliminarily…

Teeth material of bears from Za Hájovnou Cave was analysed in detail and determined as Ursus cf. deningeri from the Middle Pleistocene sample and as Ursus gr. spelaeus from the Late Pleistocene sample. On the basis of their metric characteristics, the Middle Pleistocene bears are at the evolutionary…

8,210 ursid dental and osteological elements, found in fossiliferous deposits of the Moravian Za Hájovnou Cave between 1987 and 2007, were analysed from basic palaeobiological and taphonomic viewpoints. Minimally 60% of the entire ursid record is represented by Middle Pleistocene bear assemblage(-s)…

Dental cementum from lions (Panthera fossilis) and bears (Ursus deningeri) found in Za Hájovnou Cave in Javoříčko Karst were studied. In order to determine the reasons why bears and cave lions crawled into the cave, tooth cement increments were analysed. I used thin sections of the tooth roots of…

Za Hájovnou Cave (Javoříčko Karst, northen Moravia, Czech Republic) is a unique Middle Pleistocene locality. Paleontological material comes from different types of sediments in superposition of fluvial deposits of the sinkhole which was active until the maximum of the Cromerian Interglacial I, MIS…