An attempt at correlation between the Velay pollen sequence and the Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy from central Europe

Beaulieu, Jacques‐Louis de; Andrieu‐Ponel, Valérie; Reille, Maurice; Grüger, Eberhard; Tzedakis, Polychronis C.; Svobodova, Hélèna

doi:10.1016/s0277-3791(01)00027-0

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“…Also relative biostratigraphic dating did not reveal a clear result although a detailed pollen diagram has been established (Rossi, 2003). The vegetation succession in the nearest long and continuous pollen records from Bouchet/Praclaux de Beaulieu et al, 2001) and Ioannina/Tenaghi Philippon (Tzedakis et al, 1997) which include the interglacial at ca. 400 ka differs too much from the southern Alps to allow an unambiguous correlation.…”

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Tephrochronological dating of varved interglacial lake deposits from Piànico‐Sèllere (Southern Alps, Italy) to around 400 ka

Brauer

Wulf

Mangili

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J Quaternary Science

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2006. Tephrochronological dating of varved interglacial lake deposits from Piànico-Sèllere (Southern Alps, Italy) to around 400 ka.ABSTRACT: The sediment record from the Piànico palaeolake in the southern Alps is continuously varved, spans more than 15 500 years, and represents a key archive for interglacial climate variability at seasonal resolution. The stratigraphic position of the Piànico Interglacial has been controversial in the past. The identification of two volcanic ash layers and their microscopic analysis provides distinct marker layers for tephrochronological dating of these interglacial deposits. In addition to micro-facies analyses reconstructing depositional processes of both tephra layers within the lake environment, their mineralogical and geochemical composition has been determined through major-element electron probe micro-analysis on glass shards. Comparison with published tephra data traced the volcanic source regions of the Piànico tephras to the Campanian volcanic complex of Roccamonfina (Italy) and probably the Puy de Sancy volcano in the French Massif Central. Available dating of near-vent deposits from the Roccamonfina volcano provides a robust tephrochronological anchor point at around 400 ka for the Piànico Interglacial. These deposits correlate with marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 11 and thus are younger than Early to Middle Pleistocene previously suggested by K/Ar dating and older than the last interglacial as inferred from macrofloral remains and the geological setting.

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Tephrochronological dating of varved interglacial lake deposits from Piànico‐Sèllere (Southern Alps, Italy) to around 400 ka

Brauer

Wulf

Mangili

et al. 2006

J Quaternary Science

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“…This is demonstrated not only by their widespread geographical distribution over Europe and the Near East, covering, from north to south, several different ecological and biogeographical zones, but also by the fact that between 300,000 and 30,000 years ago they were able to pass successfully through three main glacial and three interglacial periods (OIS 9-3). 22,23 Binford 24 has argued that Neandertals and Middle Stone Age hominids were obligate scavengers who lacked the ability to hunt large mammals. Stiner and Kuhn 25 have argued instead that Neandertals were able to hunt but that they practiced opportunistic scavenging more regularly than has been documented for modern humans and that the balance between these two foraging strategies was probably determined by ecological and climatic constraints.…”

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The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity

d’Errico¹

2003

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Two contradictory theories of human cognitive evolution have been developed to model how, when, and among what hominid groups behavioral modernity emerged. The first model, which has long been the dominant paradigm, links these behavioral innovations to a cultural “revolution” by anatomically modern humans in Europe at around 40,000 years ago, coinciding with the first arrival of our species in this region.1–4 According to this model, the sudden and explosive character of this change is demonstrated by the appearance in the archeological record of previously unseen carvings, personal ornaments, musical instruments, depictions on cave walls, and new stone and bone technology. A variant of this model sees behavioral modernity resulting from a rapid biological change, a brain mutation producing no apparent change in skull anatomy, which occurred in Europe or, more probably, in Africa at ca. 50,000 years ago.56.

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“…This interglacial with Pterocarya is interpreted to represent an equivalent of the Praclaux Interglacial in the Massif Central, France, and of the Holsteinian as defined in northern Germany (cf. Beaulieu et al 2001 Ar dating of tephra some metres above the Praclaux Interglacial deposits (Roger et al 1999). In contrast, Geyh & Müller (2005) report U/Th ages of about 325 ka for peat layers with a Holsteinian pollen signature from northern Germany, rather implying a correlation with MIS 9.…”

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Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland

Preusser¹

2012

Quaternary International

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Abstract:A revised glaciation history of the northern foreland of the Swiss Alps is presented by summarising field evidence and chronological data for different key sites and regions. The oldest Quaternary sediments of Switzerland are multiphase gravels intercalated by till and overbank deposits ('Deckenschotter'). Important differences in the base level within the gravel deposits allows the distinguishing of two complex units ('Höhere Deckenschotter', 'Tiefere Deckenschotter'), separated by a period of substantial incision. Mammal remains place the older unit ('Höhere Deckenschotter') into zone MN 17 (2.6-1.

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An attempt at correlation between the Velay pollen sequence and the Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy from central Europe

Cited by 153 publications

References 40 publications

Tephrochronological dating of varved interglacial lake deposits from Piànico‐Sèllere (Southern Alps, Italy) to around 400 ka

Tephrochronological dating of varved interglacial lake deposits from Piànico‐Sèllere (Southern Alps, Italy) to around 400 ka

The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity

Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland

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