Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations
International audience This study illustrates the strong potential of combining paleoenvironmental reconstructions and paleoclimate modeling to refine the paleoenvironmental and chronological context of archeological and paleontological sites. We focus on the El Harhoura 2 cave (EH), an archeologica...
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International audience This study illustrates the strong potential of combining paleoenvironmental reconstructions and paleoclimate modeling to refine the paleoenvironmental and chronological context of archeological and paleontological sites. We focus on the El Harhoura 2 cave (EH), an archeological site located on the North Atlantic coast of Morocco that covers a period from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene. In several stratigraphic layers, inconsistencies are observed between species presence and isotope-based inferences used to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions. The stratigraphy of EH also shows chronological inconsistencies in older layers between age estimated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and a combination of uranium series and electron spin resonance methods (combined US–ESR). To infer global paleoclimate variation over the EH sequence in the area, we produced an ensemble of atmosphere-only simulations using the LMDZOR6A model, using boundary conditions and forcings from pre-existing climate simulations performed with the IPSL Earth system climate model to match the different key periods. We conducted a consistency approach between paleoclimatic simulations and paleoenvironmental inferences available from EH. Our main results show that the climate sequence based on combined US–ESR ages is more consistent with paleoenvironmental inferences than the climate sequence based on OSL ages. We also evidence that isotope-based inferences are more consistent with the paleoclimate sequence than species-based inferences. These results highlight the difference in scale between the information provided by each of these paleoenvironmental proxies. Our approach is transferable to other sites due to the increasing number of available paleoclimate simulations. |
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Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site el harhoura 2 (rabat, morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations |
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:hal-04135637v1 2024-06-09T07:48:18+00:00 Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco)using paleoclimatic simulations Terray, Léa Stoetzel, Emmanuelle Ben Arous, Eslem Kageyama, Masa Cornette, Raphael Braconnot, Pascale Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA) Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Modélisation du climat (CLIM) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) 2023 https://hal.science/hal-04135637 https://hal.science/hal-04135637/document https://hal.science/hal-04135637/file/Terray%20et%20al.%202023_paleoclimato%20EH2.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1245-2023 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union (EGU) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/cp-19-1245-2023 hal-04135637 https://hal.science/hal-04135637 https://hal.science/hal-04135637/document https://hal.science/hal-04135637/file/Terray%20et%20al.%202023_paleoclimato%20EH2.pdf doi:10.5194/cp-19-1245-2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1814-9324 EISSN: 1814-9332 Climate of the Past https://hal.science/hal-04135637 Climate of the Past, 2023, 19, pp.1245-1263. ⟨10.5194/cp-19-1245-2023⟩ https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/1245/2023/ [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1245-2023 2024-05-16T10:12:54Z International audience This study illustrates the strong potential of combining paleoenvironmental reconstructions and paleoclimate modeling to refine the paleoenvironmental and chronological context of archeological and paleontological sites. We focus on the El Harhoura 2 cave (EH), an archeological site located on the North Atlantic coast of Morocco that covers a period from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene. In several stratigraphic layers, inconsistencies are observed between species presence and isotope-based inferences used to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions. The stratigraphy of EH also shows chronological inconsistencies in older layers between age estimated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and a combination of uranium series and electron spin resonance methods (combined US–ESR). To infer global paleoclimate variation over the EH sequence in the area, we produced an ensemble of atmosphere-only simulations using the LMDZOR6A model, using boundary conditions and forcings from pre-existing climate simulations performed with the IPSL Earth system climate model to match the different key periods. We conducted a consistency approach between paleoclimatic simulations and paleoenvironmental inferences available from EH. Our main results show that the climate sequence based on combined US–ESR ages is more consistent with paleoenvironmental inferences than the climate sequence based on OSL ages. We also evidence that isotope-based inferences are more consistent with the paleoclimate sequence than species-based inferences. These results highlight the difference in scale between the information provided by each of these paleoenvironmental proxies. Our approach is transferable to other sites due to the increasing number of available paleoclimate simulations. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL Climate of the Past 19 6 1245 1263 |