Contexte paléoécologique, paléoclimatique et paléogéographique des Néandertaliens de la grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya

• Main Authors: Barroso Ruiz, Cecilio, de Marchi, Marie-Pierre, Abdessadok, Salah, Bailon, Salvador, Desclaux, Emmanuel, Grégoire, Sophie, Hernández Carrasquila, Francisco, Lacombat, Frédéric, Lebreton, Vincent, Lecervoisier, Bertrand, Moigne, Anne-Marie, Perrenoud, Christian, Renault-Miskovsky, Josette, Riquelme Cantal, José-Antonio, Rodrĭguez-Vidal, Joaquĭn, Saos, Thibaud, Vernet, Jean-Louis, Vilette, Philippe
• Other Authors: Chercheur indépendant, Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret (LDPL), Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (IPH), Fondation I.P.H-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Laboratorio de Arqueozoología, Université de Madrid, Departemento de Prehistoria y Arqueologia. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Universidad de Huelva, Facultad de Ciencas Experimentales, Departemento de Geodinámica y Paleontología, Campus de El Carmen, Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d'Ecologie (CBAE), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00475923

Palaeological, palaeoclimatic and palaeogeographic background of the Neandertals of the Boquete de Zafarraya. The Boquete de Zafarraya cave (Andalusia, province of Málaga), situated at an altitude of 1022 meters, open up in a mountainous terrain presenting diverse biotopes propicious to the survival of Neandertals. Several excavation campaigns were undertaken by Cecilio Barroso-Ruíz prior to the Franco-Spanish collaboration wich led to the publication of an exceptional monograph . Several exhaustive studies were undertaken in 1996, integrating all the disciplines relevant to the study of the Quaternary : geology, paleontology, anthropology and prehistory. Paleontological, taphonomical and archeozoological data have not only brought to light the richness and importance of this statigraphy, but have also enabled to precisely identify the occupations level of the site bi mousterians hunters, These men specialized in the hunt of Pyrenean ibex (NR=2660) gathered en the Boquete de Zafarraya at the beginning of summer. The climate was then slightly more humid and cooler than today. The environnment was of a mosaic type in other words, it encompassed a diversity of ecological niches brought to light by palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic studies. However , the Mediterranean character of the region is evidenced by the presence of floral and animal species with Meditteranean climato-ecological affinities. The presence of some animal species rarely found during the Late Pleistocene (e.g. Galemys pyrenaicus described for the first time in southern Spain), and the absence of some species frequently found during this period (e.g. Canis lupus, a gap with corresponds either to its replacement by Cuon alpinus and Panthera pardus) make this site a reference statigraphy for the understanding of the evolution of the Quaternary in southern Spain. La grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya (Andalousie, province de Málaga), située à 1 022 mètres d'altitude, s'ouvre dans une région accidentée, offrant une diversité de biotopes propice à ...