Giornate di Paleontologia XII edizione – Catania, 24-26 Maggio 2012 – Volume dei Riassunti REPORTING AND DATABASE MODELLING OF FOSSIL AND ARTISTIC REMAINS OF ANTILOPE SAIGA IN PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS De Bortoli Lorenzo *, D’Errico Francesco**, Banks William*** * Department of Earth Sciences – University of Torino, via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino, Italy lorenzo.debortoli@unito.it ** CNRS-UMR 5199-PACEA, Préhistoire, Paléoenvironment, Patrimoine, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Bât. B18, Ave. des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France; and Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa f.derrico@pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr *** CNRS-UMR 5199-PACEA, Préhistoire, Paléoenvironment, Patrimoine, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Bât. B18, Ave. des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France; and Biodiversity Institute, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Dyche Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7562, USA; w.banks@pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr We present the data relating to database about the occurrence of Saiga tatarica (saïga antilope) during the Pleistocene. The data have been revised and updated from a previous database, created by the Pacea laboratory team at the University of Bordeaux 1. This work highlights the archaeological and palaeontological cross-analysis. The site selection was carried out by reference to the literature at the global level, European sites mostly. The Saiga tatarica is very important during the Pleistocene, because this animal really does prefer the steppe environment with its dry vegetation to the open woodland/scrubland environments available immediately north of its normal range; large scale movements of saïga antilope into the Central European area during the Last Glaciation must represent a genuine expansion of the true steppe environment into that area. The database includes the bones remains and artifacts of saïga antelope in relation to: geographic coordinates, culturals levels, radiometric dating and associated fossil fauna. Most of the remains are from Wallonie (Belgium); Nortwestern Territories (Canada); Fyn (Denmark); Aquitaine, Bourgogne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi Pyrénées, Poitou- Charentes, Provence-Côte d’Azur, Rhône-Alpes (France); Baden-Württemberg, Rhenanie- Palatinat, Thüringen (Germany); Somerset (Great Britain); Laconia (Greece); Taraclia (Macedonia); Województwo małopolskie (Poland); Bohemia, Moravia (Republic Czech); Drobogea (Romania); Urals, Siberia (Russia); Navarra (Spain); Ahal Welayaty (Turkey); Crimea (Ukraine); Alaska (USA). The radiometric dating of the surveyed sites spanning a range between about 159000 and 7400 BP (Middle Pleistocene-Holocene), according to obtained data from PACEA Geo- Referenced Radiocarbon Database. The sites where the occurence of saïga antelope is predominant, as remains in anthropic settlements, are attributable to the Magdalenian culture (Upper Paleolithic, 17000-12000 BP , Dryas Dryas I-III), in France especially.