Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
International audience Determining the impact of climatic variations on past human cultural changes is a difficult task due to the chronological uncertainties inherent to the dating methods applied to archaeological and paleoclimatic archives, and by the different temporal resolution of both archive...
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Deep-sea cores Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition Synchronism Palynology Western Europe Bayesian modelling Chronology [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment |
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Deep-sea cores Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition Synchronism Palynology Western Europe Bayesian modelling Chronology [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment Fourcade, Tiffanie Sánchez Goñi, María, F Lahaye, Christelle Lesven, Jonathan Philippe, Anne Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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International audience Determining the impact of climatic variations on past human cultural changes is a difficult task due to the chronological uncertainties inherent to the dating methods applied to archaeological and paleoclimatic archives, and by the different temporal resolution of both archives. Here, we present two high-resolution pollen-based palaeoenvironmental sequences from the Bay of Biscay (45°21'N, 5°13'W) and the Gulf of Lion (40°29'N, 4°01'E) plotted against up-to-date chronologies. These sequences unambiguously identify millennial-scale vegetation and climatic changes in southern France in response to Greenland warming and cooling events, i.e. Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles, and to the North Atlantic major iceberg discharges called Heinrich events (HEs). The chronologies are well constrained by numerical dating (new IRSL ages for the Bay of Biscay deep-sea core) and new age-depth models, based on Bayesian statistics and stratigraphic constrains using ChronoModel software and R-package ArchaeoPhases. The construction and updating of archaeological databases for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in southwestern and southeastern France has allowed the development of age models based on ChronoModel. These age models provide more reliable chronological windows for the observed cultural changes in Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) in Western Europe. Despite the improved paleoclimatic and archeological chronologies, the identification of a potential synchrony between climate and cultural changes still remains difficult due to new uncertainties. Nevertheless, this study suggests that the progressive opening of landscape since the D-O 12 (~47 ka) favoured the arrival of AMH in Western Europe, leading to competition with Neanderthals for the same ecological niches, and thus to the disappearance of the latter at ~40 ka. |
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Archéosciences Bordeaux Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC) Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU) Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-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) École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) IRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie (IRAMAT-CRP2A) Institut de Recherches sur les Archéomatériaux (IRAMAT) Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC) Institut de recherche sur les forêts Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray (LMJL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST) Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ) GPR Human Past, Université de Bordeaux |
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Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition |
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testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern france during the middle-to-upper palaeolithic transition |
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-04234928v1 2024-05-19T07:41:27+00:00 Testing the synchrony between cultural and paleoenvironmental changes in southern France during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition Fourcade, Tiffanie Sánchez Goñi, María, F Lahaye, Christelle Lesven, Jonathan Philippe, Anne Archéosciences Bordeaux Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC) Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU) Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-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) École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) IRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie (IRAMAT-CRP2A) Institut de Recherches sur les Archéomatériaux (IRAMAT) Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC) Institut de recherche sur les forêts Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray (LMJL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST) Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ) GPR Human Past, Université de Bordeaux Rome, Italy 2023-07-14 https://hal.science/hal-04234928 en eng HAL CCSD hal-04234928 https://hal.science/hal-04234928 XXI INQUA Congress https://hal.science/hal-04234928 XXI INQUA Congress, Jul 2023, Rome, Italy Deep-sea cores Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition Synchronism Palynology Western Europe Bayesian modelling Chronology [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2023 ftunivnantes 2024-05-01T23:56:29Z International audience Determining the impact of climatic variations on past human cultural changes is a difficult task due to the chronological uncertainties inherent to the dating methods applied to archaeological and paleoclimatic archives, and by the different temporal resolution of both archives. Here, we present two high-resolution pollen-based palaeoenvironmental sequences from the Bay of Biscay (45°21'N, 5°13'W) and the Gulf of Lion (40°29'N, 4°01'E) plotted against up-to-date chronologies. These sequences unambiguously identify millennial-scale vegetation and climatic changes in southern France in response to Greenland warming and cooling events, i.e. Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles, and to the North Atlantic major iceberg discharges called Heinrich events (HEs). The chronologies are well constrained by numerical dating (new IRSL ages for the Bay of Biscay deep-sea core) and new age-depth models, based on Bayesian statistics and stratigraphic constrains using ChronoModel software and R-package ArchaeoPhases. The construction and updating of archaeological databases for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in southwestern and southeastern France has allowed the development of age models based on ChronoModel. These age models provide more reliable chronological windows for the observed cultural changes in Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) in Western Europe. Despite the improved paleoclimatic and archeological chronologies, the identification of a potential synchrony between climate and cultural changes still remains difficult due to new uncertainties. Nevertheless, this study suggests that the progressive opening of landscape since the D-O 12 (~47 ka) favoured the arrival of AMH in Western Europe, leading to competition with Neanderthals for the same ecological niches, and thus to the disappearance of the latter at ~40 ka. Conference Object Greenland North Atlantic Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES |