Author, as appears in the article.: Juan Manuel López-García; Gloria Cuenca-Bescós; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Juan Rofes; Iván Lozano-Fernández; Julia Galán; Carmen Núnez-Lahuerta
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: LÓPEZ GARCÍA, JUAN MANUEL; Gloria Cuenca-Bescós; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Juan Rofes; Iván Lozano-Fernández; Julia Galán; Carmen Núnez-Lahuerta
Keywords: small mammals Quaternary Atapuerca
Abstract: The Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) contains the most comprehensive archaeological and paleontological evidence of human evolution in Europe during the Quaternary. The time scale based on the microfossil content of the sedimentary infillings of the caves of Atapuerca has been used to attribute relative ages to the various paleontological and archaeological levels and correlate amongst the different sites. Microfossils are particularly significant as they are the dominant constituents of the caves from the Pleistocene to the Holocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The microfossils of the Atapuerca sites are mainly composed of isolated bones and teeth from small vertebrates, and the hard tissue of the vertebrate skeleton can be taxonomically classified. In revisiting the distribution and the classification of the small-mammal taxa along five of the main stratigraphic sequences from Atapuerca (Sima del Elefante, Gran Dolina, Galería-Zarpazos, Sima de los Huesos, and Portalón), we apply a new method, the "Unitary Associations" method, in order to refine the existing biozones, adding five new Faunal Units, and interpret their relative age. Finally, we correlate Atapuerca with other Pleistocene sites of Europe.
Thematic Areas: History Historia Història
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1631-0683
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Record's date: 2016-07-29
Last page: 634
Journal volume: 15
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 621
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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