Geoarqueología, Radiocarbono Y Cronoestratigrafía Del Yacimiento Solutrense De La Cueva De Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almería, España)

Pardo, Jesús Francisco Jordá; López, Pilar; López, Sergio Ripoll; Ibáñez, Francisco Javier Muñoz

doi:10.5944/etfi.5.2012.9212

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“…At RB, the 14 C results obtained previously on bone samples are variously affected by problems related to the low quality of collagen, which typically result in ages that are unrealistically young for Neanderthal sites. At the same time, except for one sample, the 14 C ages obtained on charcoal exceed the finite dating range of the 14 C technique (Table 3; Terradas et al, 1993; Jordá Pardo et al, 1994; Martinez-Moreno et al, 2006). These problems have been detected in other Mousterian sites (Higham et al 2009; Wood et al 2013) and warn of the difficulty of deriving reliable bone or charcoal 14 C records for the period spanning 50–30 ka (Wood, 2015).…”

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confidence: 75%

“…These fluvial deposits were considered to be older than all of the talus slope deposits (Jordá Pardo et al, 1994; Jordá Pardo, 2005; Mora et al, 2014). Nevertheless, angular boulders can also be observed embedded in the fluvial deposits (Jordá Pardo et al, 1994), indicating gravitational degradation of the cliff during the fluvial sedimentation episode. Towards the east-northeast, the base of the limestone cliff is carved by a subhorizontal groove containing fluvial gravels, sands, and silts and including gravitational limestone blocks and fragments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Incision rates for the Segre valley imply a significant velocity change in landscape, which would have modified the valley and affected access to lithic resources transported by the river (quartzite gravels, Roy Sunyer et al, 2017) during the Neanderthal occupations of the RB site. It has been proposed that at the northern margin of the meander, the lower part of the talus slope is older than the fluvial terrace TQ17 (Jordá Pardo et al, 1994), since gravitational sediments lie on a fluvial bar of terrace TQ18 (Figs. 2 and 3).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other Quaternary deposits in the area include alluvial cones, mantled pediments, karstic residual deposits ( terra rossa ), and gravitational landforms, such as the talus slope that contains the RB site (Jordá Pardo et al, 1994; Jordá Pardo, 2005; Benito-Calvo et al, 2009; Mora et al, 2014), or the talus flatirons documented in the Tremp depression (Roqué et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this area, the relief is characterized by narrow and incised valleys carved by the Segre River and its tributaries (Peña Monné, 1983; Lucha et al, 2012; Stange et al, 2013a), which provide natural corridors joining the lower and open plains of the Ebro Basin with the Pre-Pyrenees ranges. RB is a multi-layered Mousterian site located 35–36 m above the Segre River, on a talus slope deposited at the foot of a large limestone cliff (Jordá Pardo et al, 1994; Jordá Pardo, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reconstructing Mousterian landscapes in the southeastern Pyrenees (Roca dels Bous site, Pre-Pyrenees ranges, Spain)

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Landscape evolution studies enable us to understand site formation processes affecting past hunter-gatherer settlements. This work presents a landscape reconstruction of Roca dels Bous site (RB), which is a reference site for the Late Mousterian occupation of the incised valleys of the southeastern Pyrenees. For this purpose, we combined geomorphological studies, stratigraphic descriptions, new single-grain optically stimulated luminescence datasets, statistical methods, and geophysical surveys. RB formed by gravitational processes induced by fluvial undermining of the Segre River during changing late Pleistocene climatic conditions. Geomorphological and chronological data combined with fluvial age-incision models suggest that, during Late Mousterian occupation, RB was located very near the Segre floodplain level and closer to water and raw material natural resources than at present. The accumulation of gravitational deposits associated with the archaeological levels occurred at rates of 0.16–0.44 m ka-1, between 55 and 47 ka, coinciding with Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3). More detailed comparison with available climatic curves suggests that the dated RB layers were potentially deposited during cold phases within MIS3. This work provides new landscape-based evidence to examine the paleoenvironmental context of Neanderthal presence in the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees, an important region in the debate regarding Neanderthal demise in Western Europe around 40 ka.

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confidence: 75%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geological Backgroundmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Equids (Equus sp.) in southern Spain from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age

Bernáldez‐Sánchez,

García‐Viñas,

Sanguino

et al. 2023

J Quaternary Science

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The genus Equus was represented on the Iberian Peninsula by four species during the late Quaternary: the wild, now extinct, E. ferus (wild horse) and E. hydruntinus (European wild ass) and the extant, domestic E. caballus (horse) and E. asinus (donkey). The distribution and timing of the extinctions of the wild species and arrival of the domestic species is important to understand the changing environment and cultures through this dynamic period in one of the three southern Pleistocene glacial refugia in Europe. Here we collected data from all zooarchaeological studies that meet basic completeness criteria from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age (45–3.2 ka bp) and analysed the equine data in light of other large mammals at the same sites in order to document the species turnover and distributions through this culturally and ecologically dynamic period. The vast majority of Palaeolithic Equus were confidently identified as E. ferus, and by the Bronze age as E. caballus, with much uncertainty in between. Over time the larger equids (horses) were much more common than the smaller equids (asses). Equids were not common, but they were distributed across the southern Iberian peninsula through the Chalcolithic, and then appear to have become restricted to the drier eastern region in the Bronze Age. These analyses indicate that both E. ferus and E. hydruntinus went extinct by the end of the Pleistocene/Palaeolithic in Andalucia. Not all communities maintained equal numbers of equids, and their distribution changed with the changing climate through time, most notably between the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age when confidence in species identification and local density of horses increase, but the distribution is restricted to the drier eastern region.

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Geoarqueología, Radiocarbono Y Cronoestratigrafía Del Yacimiento Solutrense De La Cueva De Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almería, España)

Abstract: Recibido el 5 de julio de 2013. Aceptado el 31 de julio de 2013 Resumen. La Cueva de Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almería, España)

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Reconstructing Mousterian landscapes in the southeastern Pyrenees (Roca dels Bous site, Pre-Pyrenees ranges, Spain)

Reconstructing Mousterian landscapes in the southeastern Pyrenees (Roca dels Bous site, Pre-Pyrenees ranges, Spain)

Equids (Equus sp.) in southern Spain from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age

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