Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia
Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in the area, as well as a few artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated to ∿39.6 ka cal BP, the time of Heinrich Stadial (HS) 4, this sit...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/94798 2024-02-11T10:04:29+01:00 Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia Daura, Joan Sanz, M. García, N. Allué, E. Vaquero, Manuel Fierro, Elena Carrión, J. S. López-García, J. M. Blain, H. A. Sánchez-Marco, A. Valls, C. Albert, R. M. Fornós, Joan J. Julià Brugués, Ramón Fullola, J. M. Zilhão, J. 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/94798 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.042 unknown Pergamon Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.042 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.042 issn: 0277-3791 Quarternary Science Reviews 60: 26- 48 (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/94798 none Paleoenvironment Heinrich Stadial 4 Iberian Peninsula Aurignacian Neandertha Upper Pleistocene artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2013 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.042 2024-01-16T09:57:50Z Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in the area, as well as a few artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated to ∿39.6 ka cal BP, the time of Heinrich Stadial (HS) 4, this site enables us to reconstruct the environmental conditions then prevalent in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. The concentration in a single locus of finds generated by different agents relates to a flash-flood event, the rapidity of which, combined with the absence of archaeological, ecological or paleontological incongruities in the composition of the assemblage, warrants an assumption of broad contemporaneity for its contents. The ecofactual evidence (fauna, pollen, charcoal, phytoliths) indicates a steppe-dominated environment for the coastal areas between the Pyrenees and the Ebro delta; the dominant elements are cold- and dry-adapted species but a Mediterranean component is present, implying a less rigorous climate than farther north in Europe. The artifacts are clearly Upper Paleolithic, and assignment to the modern human-associated Aurignacian technocomplex is supported by the radiocarbon dates and the typology of a bilaterally retouched blade. This evidence is consistent with the notion that anatomical modernity spread across Europe over open landscape niches. Available pollen data from deep sea cores indicate that, during some of the interstadials of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3, a significant vegetation gradient existed at 40°N, broadly coincident with the > Ebro frontier:> temperate and warm temperate trees expanded significantly to the south, while steppe-tundra landscapes remained dominant to the north, a contrast best seen during Greenland Interstadial (GI) 8. Such an environmental boundary must have implied a durable barrier to diffusion and migration during interstadials. Under the cold and arid conditions of HS4, the site of Canyars shows that the Eurasian steppe-tundra extended as far south as ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Tundra Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Greenland Quaternary Science Reviews 60 26 48 |
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Paleoenvironment Heinrich Stadial 4 Iberian Peninsula Aurignacian Neandertha Upper Pleistocene Daura, Joan Sanz, M. García, N. Allué, E. Vaquero, Manuel Fierro, Elena Carrión, J. S. López-García, J. M. Blain, H. A. Sánchez-Marco, A. Valls, C. Albert, R. M. Fornós, Joan J. Julià Brugués, Ramón Fullola, J. M. Zilhão, J. Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in the area, as well as a few artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated to ∿39.6 ka cal BP, the time of Heinrich Stadial (HS) 4, this site enables us to reconstruct the environmental conditions then prevalent in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. The concentration in a single locus of finds generated by different agents relates to a flash-flood event, the rapidity of which, combined with the absence of archaeological, ecological or paleontological incongruities in the composition of the assemblage, warrants an assumption of broad contemporaneity for its contents. The ecofactual evidence (fauna, pollen, charcoal, phytoliths) indicates a steppe-dominated environment for the coastal areas between the Pyrenees and the Ebro delta; the dominant elements are cold- and dry-adapted species but a Mediterranean component is present, implying a less rigorous climate than farther north in Europe. The artifacts are clearly Upper Paleolithic, and assignment to the modern human-associated Aurignacian technocomplex is supported by the radiocarbon dates and the typology of a bilaterally retouched blade. This evidence is consistent with the notion that anatomical modernity spread across Europe over open landscape niches. Available pollen data from deep sea cores indicate that, during some of the interstadials of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3, a significant vegetation gradient existed at 40°N, broadly coincident with the > Ebro frontier:> temperate and warm temperate trees expanded significantly to the south, while steppe-tundra landscapes remained dominant to the north, a contrast best seen during Greenland Interstadial (GI) 8. Such an environmental boundary must have implied a durable barrier to diffusion and migration during interstadials. Under the cold and arid conditions of HS4, the site of Canyars shows that the Eurasian steppe-tundra extended as far south as ... |
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Daura, Joan Sanz, M. García, N. Allué, E. Vaquero, Manuel Fierro, Elena Carrión, J. S. López-García, J. M. Blain, H. A. Sánchez-Marco, A. Valls, C. Albert, R. M. Fornós, Joan J. Julià Brugués, Ramón Fullola, J. M. Zilhão, J. |
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Daura, Joan Sanz, M. García, N. Allué, E. Vaquero, Manuel Fierro, Elena Carrión, J. S. López-García, J. M. Blain, H. A. Sánchez-Marco, A. Valls, C. Albert, R. M. Fornós, Joan J. Julià Brugués, Ramón Fullola, J. M. Zilhão, J. |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà , Barcelona): The landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the > Ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia |
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terrasses de la riera dels canyars (gavã , barcelona): the landscape of heinrich stadial 4 north of the > ebro frontier> and implications for modern human dispersal into iberia |
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