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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 43, 期 -, 页码 33-44出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.008
关键词
Pollen; Charcoal; Herpetofauna; Small and large mammals; Biochronology; Paleoenvironment; Paleoclimate; Neanderthals; Southwestern Europe
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-07896, HAR2008-01984, HAR2010-19957]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [SGR2009-324, SGR2009-188]
- postdoctoral grant from Juan de la Cierva Subprogram [JCI-2009-04026]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- predoctoral research fellowship (FI) from Generalitat de Catalunya
- European Social Fund
- predoctoral research fellowship (FPI) from Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spanish Government [CGL2009-12703-C03-02]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
According to pollen analysis and the O-18-isotope curve, the first part of the Late Pleistocene (ca 128-30 ka) is mainly characterized by a dynamic that alternates cold phases (Heinrich Events) and temperate phases (interstadials). These rapid fluctuations provide the context for the Neanderthal occupations in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula. In this paper we present the chronological, environmental and climatic data obtained by analyzing the pollen, the charcoal, the small vertebrates (amphibians, squamates and small mammals) and the large-mammal dental wear at the Neanderthal site of Teixoneres cave, Northeastern Iberia. Levels II and III from this cavity have provided Mousterian industries and other evidence of Neanderthal occupations, such as cut-marks in large-mammal bones. A multiproxy study such as this constitutes a new approach to the chronological, environmental and climatic context in which Neanderthal populations lived in southwestern Europe (Iberian Peninsula). The results allow us to establish a relative chronology for these two levels of between ca 30-90 ka and show that they are associated with different environmental and climatic conditions: temperate and humid for Level III and cold and dry for Level II. This demonstrates that the Neanderthals were well adapted to the territory that they occupied, irrespective of the climatic conditions. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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