Babja jama Traditional Cache
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ENGLISH: Palaeolithic station Babja jama.
SLOVENSKO: Paleolitska postojanka Babja jama
ENGLISH: The cave is situated nearby show cave Železna jama and the castle Krumperk at Gorjuša nearby Dob settlement ~ about 3 km from town Domžale. The entrance is free. This cave was used as a shelter for women and children in a time of the Osmani plunder in 15th and 16th century. During the research of all caves in the spring of 1967 the attention of the archaeologist drew a modest cave Babja jama. Their good position and easy access enabled sounding. In the depth of 1.8 m were in sediment, course gravel mixed with loam found first bone fragments, pieces of charcoal and a flint tool.
Systematic excavation started in summer 1968. Palaeolithic remains were found in the depth of 2.5 m, in the depth of 3 m they reached the solid breccia with no more remains.
In 1972 the members of the Society for the cave research Simon Robic Domžale started to dig a connection between the two caves, Babja jama and Železna jama. They founded a bones and artefacts and stopped the dig. Archaeological research started in 1972 and 1973 and included whole cave. In the spring 1987 the socialistic youth organisation had a working camp in a nearby castle Krumperk. Some of the young people helped the archaeologists with the excavation in front of Babja jama.
Bones and teeth of Holocene and Pleistocene mammals were found in the cave. Most bones were broken, sharp edges of the fragments, some showed also traces of fire were remains of the hunters prey from the ice age. There are bones of the raindeer, marmot, lemming, beaver, moos and bison. This shows great variety of the temperature in the Pleistocene and migrations of the animals connected with that. Many tools of the ice age hunters were found too. these findings in the Babja jama are between 1200 and 15000 years old.
SLOVENSKO: Babja jama leži v bližini turisticne jame Železna jama in gradu Krumperk pri Gorjuši v bližini Domžal. Dostop je prost. Jama je bila v casu turških vpadov v 15. in 16. stoletju zatocišce za lokalno prebivalstvo. Pri raziskovanju podzemnih jam v okolici Doba spomladi 1967 je vzbudila pozornost arheologov po razsežnosti sicer skromna Babja jama. Toda njena lega in lahka dostopnost sta narekovali cimprejšnji sondažni izkop. V globi 1,8m v grušcnato ilovnatem sedimentu so odkrili prve kostne fragmente, delce oglja in kremenov odbitek.
Že naslednje leto poleti 1968 je sledilo sistematicno odkopavanje. Na paleolitske ostanke so naleteli na globini 2,5 m. Nadaljevali so s kopanjem do globine 3m, kjer jih je ustavila trda breca.
Leta 1972 so se odkopa lotili clani Društva za raziskovanje jam Simon Robic Domžale z namenom, da povežejo Babjo jamo s turisticno urejeno Železno jamo. Z delom so prekinili takoj, ko so naleteli na kosti in druge fragmente. Nacrtna izkopavanja pri drugem jamskem vhodu so potekala v letih 1972 in 1973 in so zajela celo jamo. Poleti 1987 je domžalska mladina organizirala delovno akcijo na krumperškem gradu. Vodstvo akcije je ponudilo za krajši cas nekaj mladincev, ki naj bi pod strokovnim vodstvom nadaljevali z izkopavanji pred prvim vhodom v Babjo jamo.
V Babji jami so vsebovale holocenske in pleistocenske plasti kosti in zobe sesalcev. Vecina kosti je bila razbitih z ostrimi robovi ob lomnih ploskvah, nekatere so bile tudi ožgane, torej znacilen ostanek lovskega plena ledenodobnega lovca. Prepoznali so kosti severnega jelena, postružnika, alpskega svizca, bobra, losa in bizona kar kaže na veliko nihanje temperatur v pleistocenu in s tem selitve živali. Našli so tudi veliko orodij ledenodobnega lovca. Najdbam v Babji jami pripisujejo starost od 12000 do 15000 let.
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