Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe

Autor: García-Escárzaga, Asier, Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor, Marín-Arroyo, Ana B., Fernandes, Ricardo, Núñez de la Fuente, Sara, Cuenca-Solana, David, Iriarte, Eneko, Simões, Carlos, Martín-Chivelet, Javier, González-Morales, Manuel R., Roberts, Patrick, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Cantabria, Iriarte, Eneko [0000-0001-8365-5616], Simões, Carlos [0000-0002-4570-1308], Roberts, Patrick [0000-0002-4403-7548], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universidad de Cantabria [Santander], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Masaryk University [Brno] (MUNI), University of Oxford, Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire (CReAAH), Le Mans Université (UM)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)-Nantes Université - UFR Histoire, Histoire de l'Art et Archéologie (Nantes Univ - UFR HHAA), Nantes Université - pôle Humanités, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Humanités, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Universidad de Burgos, Universidade do Algarve (UAlg), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM), Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC, UCM), University of Queensland [Brisbane], POS_2020_2_0032, 2020 BP 00240, 818299, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB, Edge Hill University, EHU, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, MINECO, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU: IT1223-19, Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV, Universidad de Cantabria, UC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte, MPI-SHH, Universidad de La Rioja, UR
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM
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Scientific Reports, (2022), 12:6481
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, 2022, 12 (1), pp.6481. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-10135-w⟩
RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja
UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10135-w⟩
Popis: Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
Funder: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2)
The cooling and drying associated with the so-called '8.2 ka event' have long been hypothesized as having sweeping implications for human societies in the Early Holocene, including some of the last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Europe. Nevertheless, detailed 'on-site' records with which the impacts of broader climate changes on human-relevant environments can be explored have been lacking. Here, we reconstruct sea surface temperatures (SST) from δ18O values measured on subfossil topshells Phorcus lineatus exploited by the Mesolithic human groups that lived at El Mazo cave (N Spain) between 9 and 7.4 ka. Bayesian modelling of 65 radiocarbon dates, in combination with this δ18O data, provide a high-resolution seasonal record of SST, revealing that colder SST during the 8.2 ka event led to changes in the availability of different shellfish species. Intensification in the exploitation of molluscs by humans indicates demographic growth in these Atlantic coastal settings which acted as refugia during this cold event.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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