A critical re-evaluation of the evidence for the presence of hominids in Lower Pleistocene times at Venta Micena, Southern Spain

Palmqvist, Paul

doi:10.1006/jhev.1997.0120

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“…1 and 2): Venta Micena (1.6-1.4 Ma, Granada; Palmqvist et al, 2005); the Incarcal site complex (ca. 1.5 Ma, Girona; Galobart and Maroto, 2003;Ros-Montoya et al, 2012) (MadurellMalapeira, 2010).…”

Section: Late Villafranchianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3) show two main periods of faunal renewal, including speciation and extinction of several species, followed by the arrival 3, SI), most of them being first recorded at Venta Micena (ca. 1.6-1.4 Ma; Palmqvist et al, 2005 The locality of Venta Micena, representing the best-known site of the first stage of the Late Villafranchian in Iberia, records even more important first Iberian occurrences of several species, such as the large hippo Hippopotamus antiquus, the dirk-toothed cat Megantereon whitei, the pack-hunting canid Lycaon lycaonoides, and the wolf-like dog Canis mosbachensis (Palmqvist et al, 2005;Martínez-Navarro, 2010 and references therein; Fig. 3).…”

Section: Villafranchian Faunal Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1.6-1.4 Ma), which includes the localities of Venta Micena and Incarcal, evidences from the earliest Iberian hominins are recorded in Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (only lithic artifacts; Palmqvist et al, 2005), as well as in Sima del Elefante (skeletical remains; Carbonell et al, 2008). This earliest record of the presence of hominins in the Iberian Peninsula is associated with the arrival of several new species, including the bovid Ammotragus europaeus (presumably occupying the same ecological niche as the vanished Soergelia minor), the large horse Equus suessenbornensis, and the extant badger Meles meles, all of them being first recorded in the Guadix-Baza Basin Madurell-Malapeira et al, 2011b).…”

Section: Villafranchian Faunal Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1.4-1.2 Ma; Palmqvist et al, 2005;Carbonell et al, 2008;Martínez-Navarro et al, 2010). In the Iberian Peninsula, this time interval was characterized by warm temperatures and no great climatic shifts, with landscapes dominated by open dry grasslands and several wooded areas (Leroy et al, 2011).…”

Section: Iberian Late Villafranchian/early Galerian Carnivorans and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

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Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Madurell‐Malapeira

Ros-Montoya²,

Espigares³

et al. 2014

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula is currently a focus of intense paleontological, archaeological and geological research. To a large extent, these inquiries are intended to decipher the ecological factors that might have conditioned early Homo dispersals into the European continent during the late Early Pleistocene. In this respect, the research carried out during the last twenty years in several areas of the Iberian Peninsula (the Guadix-Baza Basin, the Sierra de Atapuerca, the Vallparadís Section and the Banyoles-Besalú Basin) have yielded a large amount of new significant data. Here we review such data and provide for the first time a comprehensive synthesis from a faunal, geological and paleoecological perspectives, by focusing on the relationship between paleoenvironmental conditions and early human dispersals during the late Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula. In particular, the Iberian fossil record of Early to Late Villafranchian large mammals is synthesized, on the basis of recent publications and unpublished data collected by the authors during the last five years, in order to provide the adequate faunal and paleocological framework for understanding the factors that limited or conditioned human dispersal events.Keywords: Mammals, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Villafranchian, Iberian Peninsula Resumen El Pleistoceno de la Península Ibérica es actualmente foco de intensa investigación paleontológica, arqueológica y geológica. En gran medida, estos trabajos están encaminados a descifrar los factores ecológicos que podrían haber condicionado las dispersiones de los Homo iniciales hacia Europa durante el Pleistoceno inferior. En este sentido, la investigación realizada durante los últimos veinte años en diversas zonas de la Península Ibérica (la Cuenca de Guadix-Baza, la Sierra de Atapuerca, la Sección de Vallparadís y la Cuenca de BanyolesBesalú) ha proporcionado una gran cantidad de nuevos datos significativos. Aquí revisamos estos datos y se proporciona por primera vez una síntesis exhaustiva desde una perspectiva paleontológica, paleoecológica y geológica, centrándonos en las relaciones entre las condiciones paleoambientales y las dispersiones de los primeros humanos en el Pleistoceno inferior de la Península Ibérica. Concretamente, se sintetiza el registro fósil ibérico de grandes mamíferos villafranquienses en base a publicaciones recientes y datos inéditos recopilados por los autores en los últimos cinco años, para así proporcionar el marco faunístico y paleoecológico adecuado para comprender los factores que limitaron o condicionaron los eventos de dispersión humana.

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Section: Late Villafranchianmentioning

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Section: Villafranchian Faunal Dynamicsmentioning

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Section: Villafranchian Faunal Dynamicsmentioning

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Section: Iberian Late Villafranchian/early Galerian Carnivorans and Ementioning

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Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Madurell‐Malapeira

Ros-Montoya²,

Espigares³

et al. 2014

Journal of Iberian Geology

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“…Regardless, the anatomy of the Ceprano calvaria, particularly in its more parallel-sided and shorter vault, doublearched brow, and expanded parietals, indicates its associations with archaic H. sapiens (or H. heidelbergensis), and not H. erectus (Clarke, 2000;Schwartz and Tattersall, 2002). Earlier European occupations are possibly suggested on archaeological grounds from France, Spain, and Italy at about 1.2-1.4 Ma (Bonifay, 1991;Bracco, 1991;Rolland, 1992), although hominin fossils remain contested (Martínez-Navarro et al, 1997;Palmqvist, 1997).…”

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Natural history ofHomo erectus

Antón

2003

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

408

154

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Our view of H. erectus is vastly different today than when Pithecanthropus erectus was described in 1894. Since its synonimization into Homo, views of the species and its distribution have varied from a single, widely dispersed, polytypic species ultimately ancestral to all later Homo, to a derived, regional isolate ultimately marginal to later hominin evolution. A revised chronostratigraphic framework and recent work bearing either directly or indirectly on reconstructions of life-history patterns are reviewed here and, together with a review of the cranial and postcranial anatomy of H. erectus, are used to generate a natural history of the species. Here I argue that H. erectus is a hominin, notable for its increased body size, that originates in the latest Pliocene/earliest Pleistocene of Africa and quickly disperses into Western and Eastern Asia. It is also an increasingly derived hominin with several regional morphs sustained by intermittent isolation, particularly in Southeast Asia. This view differs from several current views, most especially that which recognizes only a single hominin species in the Pleistocene, H. sapiens, and those which would atomize H. erectus into a multiplicity of taxa. Following Jolly ([2001] Yrbk Phys Anthropol 44:177-204), the regional morphs of H. erectus may be productively viewed as geographically replacing allotaxa, rather than as the focus of unresolvable species debates. Such a view allows us to focus on the adaptations and biology of local groups, including questions of biogeographic isolation and local adaptation. A number of issues remain unresolved, including the significance of diversity in size and shape in the early African and Georgian records.

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Chronology and the Human Narrative

Gowlett¹

2006

A Companion to Archaeology

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A critical re-evaluation of the evidence for the presence of hominids in Lower Pleistocene times at Venta Micena, Southern Spain

Cited by 59 publications

References 19 publications

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Natural history ofHomo erectus

Chronology and the Human Narrative

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