New data on the introduction and dispersal process of small mammals in Southwestern Europe during the Holocene: Castillejo del Bonete site (Southeastern Spain)

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Domínguez García, Ángel C., Laplana Conesa, César, Sevilla, Paloma, Blain, Hugues Alexandre, Palomares Zumajo, Norberto, Benítez de Lugo Enrich, Luis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Quaternary; Paleobiogeography; Western Mediterranean Small mammals; Maritime trade; Colonization history; Paleontología; Prehistoria; 2416 Paleontología; 5504.05 Prehistoria; Bonete; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8521; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106008

In the Mediterranean realm, the development of navigation techniques by humans during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic favoured the dispersal of some small mammal species from Africa and the Levant into the European continent. Many details of this process still remain unclear such as the exact date...