Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago
Owing to the catastrophic extinction events that occurred following the Holocene arrival of alien species, extant oceanic island biotas are a mixture of recently incorporated alien fauna and remnants of the original fauna. Knowledge of the Late Quaternary pristine island faunas and a reliable chrono...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rspb.2013.3126 2024-06-02T08:11:13+00:00 Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago Rando, Juan Carlos Pieper, Harald Alcover, Josep Antoni 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3126 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.3126 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2013.3126 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences volume 281, issue 1780, page 20133126 ISSN 0962-8452 1471-2954 journal-article 2014 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3126 2024-05-07T14:16:57Z Owing to the catastrophic extinction events that occurred following the Holocene arrival of alien species, extant oceanic island biotas are a mixture of recently incorporated alien fauna and remnants of the original fauna. Knowledge of the Late Quaternary pristine island faunas and a reliable chronology of the earliest presence of alien species on each archipelago are critical in understanding the magnitude and tempo of Quaternary island extinctions. Until now, two successive waves of human arrivals have been identified in the North Atlantic Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary and Cape Verde Islands): ‘aboriginal’, which is limited to the Canary Islands around two millennia ago, and ‘colonial’, from the fourteenth century onwards. New surveys in Ponta de São Lourenço (Madeira Island) have allowed us to obtain and date ancient bones of mice. The date obtained (1033 ± 28 BP) documents the earliest evidence for the presence of mice on the island. This date extends the time frame in which the most significant ecological changes occurred on the island. It also suggests that humans could have reached Madeira before 1036 cal AD, around four centuries before Portugal officially took possession of the island. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 1780 20133126 |
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Owing to the catastrophic extinction events that occurred following the Holocene arrival of alien species, extant oceanic island biotas are a mixture of recently incorporated alien fauna and remnants of the original fauna. Knowledge of the Late Quaternary pristine island faunas and a reliable chronology of the earliest presence of alien species on each archipelago are critical in understanding the magnitude and tempo of Quaternary island extinctions. Until now, two successive waves of human arrivals have been identified in the North Atlantic Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary and Cape Verde Islands): ‘aboriginal’, which is limited to the Canary Islands around two millennia ago, and ‘colonial’, from the fourteenth century onwards. New surveys in Ponta de São Lourenço (Madeira Island) have allowed us to obtain and date ancient bones of mice. The date obtained (1033 ± 28 BP) documents the earliest evidence for the presence of mice on the island. This date extends the time frame in which the most significant ecological changes occurred on the island. It also suggests that humans could have reached Madeira before 1036 cal AD, around four centuries before Portugal officially took possession of the island. |
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Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago |
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Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago |
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Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago |
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Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago |
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Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago |
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radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on madeira island (north atlantic) one millennium ago |
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