Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Latest Pleistocene of El Portalón Site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northwestern Spain

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: López García, Juan Manuel, Blain, Hugues Alexandre, Cuenca Bescós, Gloria, Ruiz Zapata, María Blanca, Dorado Valiño, Miriam, Gil García, María José, Valdeolmillos, Ana, Ortega, Ana Isabel, Carretero, José Miguel, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bermúdez de Castro, Jose María, Carbonell, Eudald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Paleontología; Cueva; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/76482/; https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/76482/1/1-s2.0-S0031018210002154-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.04.006

The site of El Portalón is the entrance to the Cueva Mayor karst system, located in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). This is an important Holocene archaeological site,which was excavated in the 1970s but from which little has been published. New excavations starting in 2000 have highlighted...