Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain

Berger, Glenn W.; Pérez‐González, Alfredo; Carbonell, Eudald; Arsuaga, Juan Luís; Castro, José Marı́a Bermúdez de; Ku, Teh-Lung

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.02.012

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“…First analyses by Falguères et al (1999) using the ESR and U-series methods, the biochronological study of the Atapuerca sites (Cuenca-Bescós et al, 1999;Cuenca-Bescós and García, 2007), and the stratigraphic position of these hominins below the Matuyama/Bruhnes geomagnetic boundary suggested a chronology of about 850 ka for the Aurora Archaeostratigraphic Set , probably corresponding to the MIS 21. Further studies from Berger et al (2008) using the TL and IRSL multialiquot dating methods and the latest paleomagnetic analysis of the Gran Dolina-TD7 LU (Parés et al, 2013) pointed to an interval of 900-950 ka for the TD6 hominins. Thus, the hominin-bearing sediments from TD6 could have been deposited during the MIS 25.…”

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Evolutionary interpretation of the modern human-like facial morphology of the Atapuerca Gran Dolina-TD6 hominins

Castro

Martinón‐Torres

2014

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The Early Pleistocene human fossil remains recovered from the TD6 lithostratigraphic unit of the Gran Dolina cave site in the Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain, show a mosaic of primitive and derived features. Among the latter, the modern human-like midfacial topography, as well as several synapomorphies shared with some European Middle Pleistocene hominin and Neanderthals, represents a challenge for the phylogenetic interpretation of Homo antecessor. Using an ontogenetic approach of the maxilla ATD6-69, Freidline et al. (Journal of Human Evolution, 65: 404-423 (2013)) have confirmed previous observations that H. antecessor adults had a set of facial features characterizing H. sapiens. However, Freidline and collaborators proposed that the evolution of modern-looking facial morphology occurred independently in Africa, Asia, and Europe and at several times during the Early and the Middle Pleistocene. Following their line of reasoning, the presence in H. antecessor of some features shared with the European Middle Pleistocene hominins and the Neanderthal lineage could also be interpreted as convergences. However, instead of supposing multiple, parallel evolution, we suggest that a more parsimonious interpretation envisages the hypothetical existence of an Early Pleistocene hominin population, from which several hominin lineages originate and inherit particular combinations of derived features. The TD6 hominins probably represent a side branch of this cladogenetic event, which evolved in Western Europe.

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Evolutionary interpretation of the modern human-like facial morphology of the Atapuerca Gran Dolina-TD6 hominins

Castro

Martinón‐Torres

2014

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“…Atapuerca TD8 is placed just above the lower limit of the Brunhes . ESR and U-Th dating gave a mean age of 602±52 ka (Falguères, et al, 1999) and luminescence dating gave and age of 820±140 ka (Berger, et al, 2008 Both Hyaena and Theropithecus came probably from or through SE Europe and SW Asia. Their dispersals may have been favoured by the same environments: relatively warm and open environments at the transition from stage 20 to 19.…”

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“…After Berger et al (2008) and Parés et al (2013). Diagrams showing the occlusal length (DAPo) and protoconal index (PI) of the M 1/2 and P 3/4 of Equus altidens from Atapuerca TD8 compared to selected samples and species of Equus.…”

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Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

Made

Rosell

Blasco

2017

Quaternary International

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An extraordinary sequence of fossiliferous levels at the locality of Gran Dolina in the Atapuerca Hills (Burgos, Spain) records the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition. These levels are well dated by a variety of methods, including palaeomagnetism, which locates Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary at the tope of level TD7. Level TD6 is the type site of the species Homo antecessor and yielded over 90% of the European Early Pleistocene human record, while other levels have an archaeological record. The present paper deals with the earliest Middle Pleistocene ungulates of TD8, but we plan to describe the faunas, or at least the ungulates, of levels TD4 to TD8 in the context of the faunal changes that took place around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition.About 600 fossils could be assigned to a taxon and on this basis the following ungulates are described from TD8: horse Equus altidens, rhinoceros Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus, wild boar Sus scrofa, hippopotamus Hippopotamus sp., red deer Cervus elaphus, giant deer Eucladoceros aff. giulii, giant deer Megaceroides solilhacus, fallow deer Dama vallonnetensis, and bison Bison voigtstedtensis. The evolution of these taxa is discussed. The fauna from level TD8 dates to the earliest Middle Pleistocene (stage 19) and differs from later faunas in the retention of a small rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus) and the latest representative of the genus Eucladoceros. It differs from earlier faunas in having the striped hyaena. Together with the fauna from TD7, in which the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary is recorded, TD8 will provide the most precise criterions for correlation of the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary on the basis of fossils of large mammals.Profound changes in the global climate system started to take place during the late Early Pleistocene, leading to intensive environmental and faunal change and to human dispersal into Europe. These events mark the beginning of a new time and the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is taken somewhere in the middle of this drawn out process. It is taken at a palaeomagnetic change, which is convenient, but this does not appear to be close to an important climatic or faunal change. Ten faunal events are recognized in the period from about 1.2 to 0.5 Ma. The event closest to the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is one of the minor events and up to now it is recorded in only few localities, principally in TD8.

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“…The archaeostratigraphic levels are arbitrary divisions of the stratigraphic level, because their depth is determined by those digging, whereas the stratigraphic level is defined in terms of its lithological composition and geom etry. The time scale is provided by the different biostratigraphic, palaeomagnetic and radiometric dating of Gran Dolina (Carbonell et al, 1995;Pares and Perez-Gonzalez, 1995;Cuenca-Bescos et al, 1999, 2010Falgueres et al, 1999;Cuenca-Bescos and Garcia, 2007;Berger et al, 2008).…”

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The Early–Middle Pleistocene environmental and climatic change and the human expansion in Western Europe: A case study with small vertebrates (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain)☆

Cuenca‐Bescós

Melero-Rubio

Rofes

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Journal of Human Evolution

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Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain

Cited by 276 publications

References 87 publications

Evolutionary interpretation of the modern human-like facial morphology of the Atapuerca Gran Dolina-TD6 hominins

Evolutionary interpretation of the modern human-like facial morphology of the Atapuerca Gran Dolina-TD6 hominins

Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

The Early–Middle Pleistocene environmental and climatic change and the human expansion in Western Europe: A case study with small vertebrates (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain)☆

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