A multiproxy record of palaeoenvironmental conditions at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Abric del Pastor (Eastern Iberia)
| Autor: | Rory Connolly, Antonio V. Herrera-Herrera, Cristo M. Hernández, Lucia Leierer, Margarita Jambrina-Enríquez, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Bertila Galván, Carolina Mallol, Rafael Marquina-Blasco, Ana Fagoaga, Salvador Bailon, Leopoldo Pérez, María Dolores Marin-Monfort, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Sánchez, César Laplana |
|---|---|
| Přispěvatelé: | Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica Antonio González (IUBO-AG), Universitat de València (UV), Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret (LDPL), Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP] (ULL), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Generalitat Valenciana, European Research Council |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Biotope
010506 paleontology Archeology Neanderthal 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Pleistocene [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory Middle palaeolithic Stratigraphic unit 01 natural sciences Soil micromorphology biology.animal Organic geochemistry Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Neanderthals Stable isotopes Global and Planetary Change geography.geographical_feature_category biology Geology 15. Life on land Archaeology Europe Geography Lipid biomarkers Sedimentary rock Iberia Ravine Palaeoenvironment reconstruction Rock shelter |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary Science Reviews Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2019, 225, pp.106023. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106023⟩ Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| ISSN: | 0277-3791 |
| Popis: | This paper presents a multiproxy palaeoenvironmental study from Abric del Pastor (Alcoy, Spain), a rock shelter which has yielded evidence for Middle Palaeolithic human occupation. The sedimentary sequence has been analysed for lipid biomarker n-alkane abundances (ACL, CPI), compound specific leaf wax δH and δC, and bulk organic geochemistry (TOC, %N, %S), providing a record of past climate and local vegetation dynamics. Site formation processes have been reconstructed through the application of soil micromorphology. Analyses of anthracological, microvertebrate and macrofaunal assemblages from selected subunits are also presented here. Our data indicates that a variable climate marked by predominantly cold conditions persisted through most of the sequence and that Neanderthal occupations in stratigraphic unit IVd, assigned to MIS 4 or late MIS 5, occurred in a landscape setting characterised by a mosaic of biotopes. The presence of key resources inside the ravine where the site is located suggests that the occupation of the rock shelter may have been strategically motivated by a subsistence and mobility strategy which focused on zones of localised ecological resilience, such as intra-mountainous valleys or ravines, during periods of global or regional environmental downturn. This research was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant project PALEOCHAR – 648871. Excavations at Abric del Pastor are funded by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities Project HAR2015-68321-P and the Government of Valencia Cultural Heritage Department. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect