The Baker Bluff Cave deposit, Tennessee, and the late Pleistocene faunal gradient

Late Pleistocene remains of 180 taxa of vertebrates and invertebrates are reported from a 3 m( 10 ft) column of fissure-fill, Baker Bluff Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA. Radiocarbon dates suggest deposition began about 19,100 years ago. Accompanying faunal sequence indicates a transition from cool-temperate in the lower levels to boreal open woodland in the upper levels. The Pleistocene/Holocene transition was not recorded. Evidence of human occupation from Early Archaic, 8,000 to 9,000 years BP, to the Historic period was present in the top 90 cm (3 ft) of the deposit. Pollen analysis was negative.