Late Pleistocene Landscape and Settlement Dynamics of Portuguese Estremadura
| Autor: | Telmo Pereira, Caroline Funk, J. Michael Daniels, Michael M. Benedetti, Rhawn F. Denniston, Nuno Bicho, Steven L. Forman, Thomas A. Minckley, João Marreiros, Jonathan Haws |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Portugal 060102 archaeology Pleistocene OSL dating Settlement (structural) Geomorphology 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology language.human_language Geography Archaeological survey Human settlement language 0601 history and archaeology Portuguese Optical dating Palaeolithic 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 2042-4582 0093-4690 |
| Popis: | Here we report the results of an integrated geoarchaeological survey to study Palaeolithic human settlement dynamics in the coastal region of Portuguese Estremadura. The region has been an important focus of human occupation across multiple glacial-interglacial cycles, including periods of well-documented abrupt climate instability during MIS 3 and 2. The pedestrian survey covered a roughly 10 km wide strip of land between Sao Pedro de Muel and Peniche. The survey intensively targeted three landscape settings with Pleistocene-age surfaces and sediments: the coastal bluffs with exposed aeolian, fluvial, and colluvial sands; the Caldas da Rainha diapiric valley and associated fluvial/estuarine fills; and, Cretaceous chert-rich limestone uplands that bound the inland margin of the study area. We discovered dozens of new Palaeolithic sites, analyzed numerous Pleistocene sedimentary sections, and applied widespread OSL-dating to establish age control that allowed us to build a regional geomorphic history to contextualize Late Pleistocene human settlement across the region. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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